And when you pray use not vain repetitions, as the gentiles do; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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

And behold, the vail of the temple was rent in two, from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks rent,

but in vain do they worship me, teaching for teachings the commandments of men;

And the vail of the temple was rent in two, from top to bottom;

And the sun was obscured; and the vail in the midst of the temple was rent in two.

who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise vain things?

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We are also men subject to like sufferings with you, preaching that you should turn from these vain [services] to the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things in them,

because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.

for [the power] is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister of justice for punishment to him that does evil.

And again; The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise that they are vain.

But I have used none of these things, and I have not written these things that it should be so done to me; for I prefer to die, rather than that any one should make my boasting vain.

by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain.

but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.

and if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain;

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins,

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

and not as Moses put a vail on his face, that the children of Israel might not see to the end of that which has passed away;

but their minds were blinded. For to this day in reading the old covenant the same vail remains, not taken away because it is taken away in Christ;

but to this day when Moses is read a vail lies upon their minds;

but when they turn to the Lord the vail is taken away.

And being also co-laborers we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain,??2 for he says, In an acceptable time I heard you, and in a day of salvation I helped you; behold, now is an acceptable time, behold, now is a day of salvation,??3 giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry may not be blamed,

But I sent the brothers, that our boasting of you may not be in vain in this respect, as I said you were prepared,

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

Have you suffered so much in vain? if indeed also it is in vain.

I am afraid of you, lest I have expended labor on you in vain.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.

Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself,

holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

For you know, brothers, our introduction to you that it was not in vain,

For this reason, being no longer able to forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest in some way the tempter should have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

which some having missed turned aside to vain words,

But profane and vain words, avoid; for they greatly increase impiety,

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and entering within the vail,

But behind the second vail is the tabernacle, called the inner sanctuary,

which [entrance] he consecrated for us a new and living way through the vail, that is his flesh,

But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?

knowing that you were not redeemed from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers, with destructible things, silver or gold,