"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.

because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

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

All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.

Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain.

Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.