But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.

but in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings commandments of men.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their teachings commandments of men.

who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

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

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;

which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,