Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Bible References

Not him

Job 12:16
With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
Ephesians 5:6
Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

Trust

Psalm 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Jonah 2:8
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

For vanity

Job 4:8
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Proverbs 22:8
By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
Isaiah 17:10
For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain