'Empty' in the Bible
Then it says, 'I will return to the home I left.' When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.
he has filled the hungry with good things, and has sent the rich away empty.
For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.
Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed -- not by perishable things like silver or gold,
For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.