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

which some having missed turned aside to vain words,

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

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.

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

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

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

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

but in an assembly I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may also teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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,