You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

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.

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.

And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit, Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.