14 Bible Verses about emptiness

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

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And he said, I will do this; I will take down my storehouses and build greater; and there will I bring together all my produce and my goods; and I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself. But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided?

For we brought nothing into the world; it is clear that we can carry nothing out of it;

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,

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

For we all have received of his fullness, and grace for grace;

The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

and you are made perfect in him, who is the head of all principality and power,

but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man,

for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, though rich, that you by his poverty might be rich.