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

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

But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

for he is God's minister to you for good. But, if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

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

through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you, unless ye believed in vain.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and His grace which was bestowed upon me did not prove vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;

and, if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins!

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

And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be even in vain.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain.

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

holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

For ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance to you, that it has not become vain;

For this reason, I also, no longer enduring it, sent, that I might know your faith, lest by some means the tempter tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

which some having missed turned aside to vain talk;

For there are many unruly men, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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

If anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"

knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;

because all that is in the world??he desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the vain-glory of life??s not of the Father, but is of the world.