36 Bible Verses about Vanity
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Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can a man do that comes after the king? even that which has been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.read more.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all. Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool. Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind. Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. Therefore I gave my heart up to despair of all the labor in which I toiled under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart, with which he has labored under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I? For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.
Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind. The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh. Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.read more.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after him shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and grasping after the wind.
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction. If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he. For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind. Whatever has been is named already, and it is known that this is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man the better?
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity. Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Behold, they are all worthless; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them:
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Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Vanity
Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in pathways, and not on a highway;
Man » Compared to » Vanity
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Vanity » Foolish questions, &c are
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain utterances, and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge:
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.
Vanity » Idolatry is
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in pathways, and not on a highway;
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. Who fashions a god, or molds a graven image, that is profitable for nothing?
Vanity » The reward for following vanity
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. read more.
And they set them up images and idol poles on every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations which the LORD carried away before them; and did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, of which the LORD had said unto them, You shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Nevertheless they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an idol pole and worshiped all the army of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight. For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in pathways, and not on a highway; read more.
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by it shall be astonished, and shake his head. I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Vanity » Foolish questions are
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain utterances, and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge:
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talk; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor the things they affirm.
Vanity » Heaping up riches is
For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.
Vanity » The wicked » Speak
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
Vanity » The wicked » Imagine
Who by the mouth of your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Vanity » Who became vain
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse: read more.
Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Vanity » The help of man is
As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Vanity » The wicked » Reap
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Vanity » Saints » Pray to be kept from
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:
Vanity » Mere external religion is
For bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been observing them.
Vanity » The days of man are
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Vanity » The wicked » Walk in
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Vanity » Vain men
Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the limits of the Almighty? It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know? The measure of it is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. read more.
If he cuts off, and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him? For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it? For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.
But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? See how faith worked with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Vanity » The wicked » Judicially given up to
When you cry, let your collection of idols deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Vanity » Evil people » Imagine
Who by the mouth of your servant David has said, Why did the nations rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Vanity » The worship of the wicked is
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Vanity » The wicked » Count God's service as
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
Vanity » Emptiness of the worldly life
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Vanity » What is not vain
And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel: And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, which you go over Jordan to possess.
Vanity » Worldly wisdom
And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
Vanity » Evil people » Regard God's service as
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
Vanity » Evil people » Speak
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
Vanity » Evil people » Judicially given up to
When you cry, let your collection of idols deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Vanity » Evil people » Reap
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Vanity » The beauty of man is
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Vanity » Pray to be kept from
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me:
Vanity » Almsgiving without charity is
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
Vanity » Childhood and youth are
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Vanity » Evil people » Live in
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Vanity » Worldly enjoyment is
I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.
And whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my reward of all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Vanity » Worldly pleasure is
I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Vanity » All earthly things are
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Vanity » Unblessed riches are
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
Vanity » The wicked » Inherit
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
Vanity » What was made subject to vanity
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, read more.
Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Vanity » Worldy anxiety
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
Vanity » Wealth gotten by vanity
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
Vanity » Following those given to, leads to poverty
He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after worthless pursuits shall have poverty enough.
Vanity » Wealth gotten by, diminishes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.
Vanity » Fools follow those given to
He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
Vanity » False teaching is but
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their recklessness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
Vanity » Saints » Hate the thoughts of
[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
Vanity » Who shall reap vanity
Vanity » Treasures of wickedness are
Vanity » The wicked » Allure others by words of
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.
Vanity » The wicked » Walk after
Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Vanity » Worldly labor is
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.
Vanity » The conduct of the unGodly is
Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers;
Vanity » A consequence of the fall
For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,
Vanity » Man is like to
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Vanity » Every man is
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Vanity » The wicked » Devise
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
Vanity » Saints » Avoid those given to
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Vanity » Saints » Avoid
He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Vanity » Saints hate the thoughts of
[Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
Vanity » Man at his best estate is
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Vanity » The religion of hypocrites is
If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Vanity » Faith without works is
What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works? can faith save him?
Vanity » Evil people » Inherit
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
Vanity » Evil people » Though full of, affect to be wise
For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.
Vanity » Evil people » Especially characterized by
For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
Vanity » The wicked » Though full of, affect to be wise
For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.
Vanity » The wicked » Especially characterized by
For he knows vain men: he sees wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
Vanity » The wicked » Love
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Vanity » God not hearing or regarding vanity
Vanity » Man's own righteousness is
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
Vanity » Worldly possessions
I made myself great works; I built houses; I planted vineyards: I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them with all kind of fruit: I made myself pools of water, with which to water the forest that brings forth trees: read more.
I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered for myself also silver and gold, and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces: I got men singers and women singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my reward of all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Vanity » They who trust in, rewarded with
Vanity » Evil people » Allure others through the words of
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.
Vanity » Almsgiving without love is
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
Vanity » The thoughts of man are
Vanity » Man is similar to
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Vanity » Every man has
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Vanity » Evil people » Live by
Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Vanity » Evil people » Devise
He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
Vanity » Riches gotten by falsehood are
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Vanity » Every state of man is
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Vanity » Love of riches is
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Vanity » Lying words are
Vanity » All should know and acknowledge
Unto you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else besides him.
Vanity » Avoid those given to
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Vanity » Avoid
He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Vanity » Evil people » Love
O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Vanity » Worldly pleasure
I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Topics on Vanity
The Vanity Of Human Knowledge
Isaiah 44:25That frustrates the omens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
