Vanity
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Vanity’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 145–164 of 164 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Psalms 2:1 OT
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Acts 4:25 NT
who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Romans 1:21 NT
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
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Psalms 36:4 OT
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
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Psalms 10:7 OT
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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Psalms 12:2 OT
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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Psalms 41:6 OT
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
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Job 21:15 OT
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Malachi 3:14 OT
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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2 Peter 2:18 NT
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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Jeremiah 2:5 OT
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
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Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no…
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He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
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Psalms 78:33 OT
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
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Isaiah 57:13 OT
When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”
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He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
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One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
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Job 15:31 OT
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.