Reference: Vanity
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Does not usually denote, in Scripture, self-conceit or personal pride, 2Pe 2:18, but sometimes emptiness and fruitlessness, Job 7:3; Ps 144:4; Ec 1. It often denotes wickedness, particularly falsehood, De 32:21; Ps 4:2; 24:4; 119:37, and sometimes idols and idol-worship, 2Ki 17:15; Jer 2:5; 18:15; Jon 2:8. Compare Paul's expression, "they turned the truth of God into a lie," Ro 1:25. "In vain," in the second commandment, Ex 20:7, is unnecessarily and irreverently. "Vain men," 2Sa 6:20; 2Ch 13:7, are dissolute and worthless fellows.
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By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
Hastings
The root-idea of the word is 'emptiness.' Skeat suggests that the Lat. vanus (perhaps for vac-nus) is allied to vacuus 'empty.' In English literature 'vanity' signifies (1) emptiness, (2) falsity, (3) vainglory. The modern tendency is to confine its use to the last meaning. But 'vanity' in the sense of 'empty conceit' is not found in the English Bible.
1. In the OT.
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vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."
vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts.
For creation was not rendered futile by its own choice, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject,
For creation was not rendered futile by its own choice, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject,
and again, The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise is futile.
But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.
and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.
and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.
and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.
and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.
Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.
Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile, their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.
But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.
Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.
But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).