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

But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

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

Have you suffered so many things in vain? if, indeed, it be in vain.

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

But in vain, do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.

Why did the heathen rage, and the people devise vain things?

In vain do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.