Vain

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• Psalms 127:1

  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

• Psalms 60:11

  Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

• Proverbs 31:30

  Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

• 1 Corinthians 15:58

  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

• Ecclesiastes 1:2

  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

• Matthew 6:7

  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

• Jeremiah 2:30

  In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Psalms 39:6

  Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

• Isaiah 1:13

  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

• 1 Corinthians 3:20

  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

• Philippians 2:3

  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

• Ecclesiastes 2:11

  Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

• Psalms 2:1

  Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

• Colossians 2:8

  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

• Isaiah 45:19

  I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

• James 4:5

  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

• Isaiah 30:7

  For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

• Psalms 139:20

  For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

• Jeremiah 2:5

  Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

• Psalms 94:11

  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

• Psalms 139:24

  And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

• Isaiah 45:9

  Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

• 1 Peter 1:18

  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

• Ecclesiastes 1:14

  I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

• Psalms 108:12

  Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:1

  For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

• James 4:14

  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

• James 1:26

  If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

• 1 Corinthians 15:17

  And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

• Isaiah 45:18–19

  For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

• 2 Kings 17:15

  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

• Proverbs 12:11

  He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

• Job 7:3

  So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

• Romans 13:4

  For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

• Galatians 3:4

  Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.