Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for the multitude of their words.

holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.

and if Christ hath not risen, then is our preaching vain, and vain also is your faith.

Have ye suffered so much in vain? if indeed it be really in vain.

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

For by thy words thou wilt be justified, and by thy words thou wilt be condemned.

But they knew not the meaning of these words, and it was hidden from them, that they might not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about these words.

If any one teacheth other doctrine, and assenteth not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

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

who by the mouth of thy servant David said, "Why did the heathen rage, and the peoples meditate vain things?

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