12 Bible Verses about Lack Of Meaning

And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;

"This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

But He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

You have planted them; yea, they take root. They grow, yea, they make fruit. You are near in their mouth and far from their reins.

And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.

Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush.

But when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard.

And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.

And their words seemed to them like foolishness, and they did not believe them.

O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science,

But shun profane, vain babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

for as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.