36 Bible Verses about Vanity

Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up;

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse

I hated those watching vanities of falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah.

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up;

And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed. Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?

And it will be that the sons of Israel sinned against Jehovah their God, having brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they will fear,other gods. And they will go in the laws of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel, and the kings of Israel which they made. And the sons of Israel will cover the words not thus concerning Jehovah their God, and they will build to them heights in all their cities from the tower of those watching even to the fortified city. read more.
And they will set to them statues and images upon every high hill, and under every green tree. And they will burn incense there in all the heights as the nations which Jehovah carried into exile from their face; and they will do evil words to irritate Jehovah: And they will serve blocks which Jehovah said to them, Ye shall not do this word. And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets. And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God. And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they. And they will forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten thing, two Calves; and they will make images, and they will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve Baal. And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him. And Jehovah will be greatly angry against Israel, and he will remove them from his face: not to leave only the tribe of Judah alone. Also Judah watched not the commands of Jehovah their God, and they will go in the laws of Israel which they made. And Jehovah will reject in all the seed of Israel, and will afflict them, and he will give them into the hand of plunderers, till he cast them from his face. For he rent Israel from above the house of David; and they will make Jeroboam son of Nebat, king; and Jeroboam will thrust out Israel king after Jehovah, and he caused them to sin a great sin. And the sons of Israel will go in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they turned not away from them; Till Jehovah removed Israel from his face, as he spake by the hand of all his servants the prophets. And he will carry Israel into exile from his land to Assur, even to this day.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

For this, thus said Jehovah: Ask now among the nations, who heard like as these things: the virgin of Israel did very horrible things. Shall the field cut loose from the rock the snow of Lebanon? or shall the cold flowing waters of an inundation be dried up? Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up; read more.
To set their land for a desolation, eternal hissings; every one passing over it shall be astonished and shall shake with his head. As the east wind I will scatter them before the face of the enemy; I will cause them to see the neck and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

Which some having missed turned away to vain discourse Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.

For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

And if he came to see, he will speak vanity: his heart will gather vanity to him; he will go forth without; he will speak.

Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice; Wherefore that known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable: read more.
Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened. Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools, And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

Give to us help from straits, for vain the salvation of man.

Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

He sowing iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his wrath shall be finished.

Cause mine eyes to pass from seeing vanity; make me live in thy way.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

For bodily exercise is profitable, to little: but devotion is profitable to all things, having promise of life now, and that about to be.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?

I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

Searching shalt thou and God? Shalt thou find the Almighty even to completeness? The heavens being high, what wilt thou do? Hades being deep, what wilt thou know? Its measure long above the earth, and broad above the sea. read more.
If he shall pass on, and shut up, and gather together, who shall turn him back. For he knew men of vanity, and he will see iniquity; and will he not understand? And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected.

In thy crying out, shall thy gatherings deliver thee? and the wind shall lift them all up; a breath shall take: and he taking refuge in me shall inherit the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain;

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?

And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to.

Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.

What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?

Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies?

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

And Moses will finish speaking all these words to all Israel: And he will say to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I call upon you to witness this day, which ye shall command your sons to watch and to do, all the words of this law. For it is not an empty word for you, but it is your life; and in this word ye shall prolong the days upon the land which ye pass through Jordan there to inherit it

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

For there is man his labor in wisdom, and in knowledge and in success; and to man not laboring in it he shall give his portion. Also this is vanity and much evil.

And I said in my heart, As the event of the foolish one, also I, it will meet me; and wherefore then was I more wise? And I spake in my heart, This is also vanity.

What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?

Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies?

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak

And if he came to see, he will speak vanity: his heart will gather vanity to him; he will go forth without; he will speak.

In thy crying out, shall thy gatherings deliver thee? and the wind shall lift them all up; a breath shall take: and he taking refuge in me shall inherit the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain;

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

They sowed wheat and they reaped thorns: they were wearied, they shall not profit; and they were ashamed of your gains from the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

He sowing iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his wrath shall be finished.

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

Favor a falsehood, and beauty vanity: a woman fearing Jehovah, she shall be praised.

Cause mine eyes to pass from seeing vanity; make me live in thy way.

Vanity and the word of falsehood remove far from me; thou wilt not give to me poverty and riches; feed me with bread of my allowance:

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

I examined in my heart to draw my flesh with wine, and my heart led in wisdom; and to lay hold upon folly till that I shall see what this good to the sons of man which they will do under the heavens the number of the days of their life.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor. And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

A man which God will give to him wealth and riches and honor, and wanting not to his soul from all which he shall desire, and God will not permit him to eat from it, for a man, a stranger shall eat it. This is vanity and it is an evil disease.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us. For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, read more.
That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.

He working his land shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing the vain shall be filled with poverty.

Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase.

He working his earth shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing vain things wanted heart.

Behold me against them prophesying dreams of falsehood, says Jehovah, and they will recount them, and will cause my people to wander by their falsehoods and by their boasting; and I sent them not, and I commanded them not; and helping, they shall be of no profit to this people, says Jehovah.

I hated dividings, and I loved thy law.

He sowing iniquity shall reap vanity, and the rod of his wrath shall be finished.

Treasures of injustice shall not profit, and justice shall deliver from death.

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

And I saw all the labor and all the success of the work, for this the jealousy of a man from his neighbor. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope,

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

The blameless one of hands and the clean of heart; who lifted not up his soul to vanity, and swore not for deceit

I hated dividings, and I loved thy law.

Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

And what profit, my brethren, if any say he has faith, and should not have works? can faith save him?

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

For he knew men of vanity, and he will see iniquity; and will he not understand?

And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt

For he knew men of vanity, and he will see iniquity; and will he not understand?

Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.

Also God will not hear vanity, and the Almighty will not look upon it

I will announce thy justice and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.

I magnified my work; I builded to me houses; I planted to me vineyards: I made to me gardens and pleasure grounds, and I planted in them a tree of all fruit I made to me pools of waters to water from them the forest, causing trees to spring forth. read more.
I obtained servants and maids, and sons of the house were to me; also obtaining cattle, and many sheep were to me more than all that were before me in Jerusalem. I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses. And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me. And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them, and I withheld not my heart from all gladness; for my heart rejoiced from all my labor: and this was my portion from all my labor. And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

Jehovah knew the thoughts of man that they are vanity.

Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.

Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.

Thou sawest to know that Jehovah he is God: no more beside him.

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

The blameless one of hands and the clean of heart; who lifted not up his soul to vanity, and swore not for deceit

Sons of man, how long mine honor for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye. will seek falsehood. Silence.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity.