14 Bible Verses about emptiness

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

For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;

And He said unto them, See to it that ye beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of his possessions.

But they, that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into ruin and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting after have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And he said, This I will do: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will bestow all my products and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast plenty of goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out:

crying out, and saying, "Sirs, why do ye these things? we also are men subject to the like infirmities with you, and we preach the gospel unto you, that ye may turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea,

knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain conversation learned by tradition from your fathers, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold;

And of his fulness have we all received, even grace for grace.

The thief cometh only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and may have it in perfection.

till we all arrive in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at perfect maturity, even to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

And ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye by his poverty might be rich.