'Vain' in the Bible

Let them put heavier labour on the men, that they may be taken up with it, and not regard vain words.

I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.

and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this man had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

And vain men, sons of Belial, gathered to him and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not shew himself strong against them.

Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?

For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;

How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?

I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

The horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth he deliver by his great power.

Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

{A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.} Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain:

It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.

For they speak of thee wickedly, they take thy name in vain, thine enemies.

For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.

Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?

Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear.

We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, he is very proud, of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain.

For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I named her, Arrogance, that doeth nothing.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.

And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for terror; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.

Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Truly in vain is salvation looked for from the hills, and the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.

Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: thy lovers despise thee, they seek th

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.

Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.

I know his wrath, saith Jehovah; his pratings are vain: they do not as they say.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel.

Have ye not seen a vain vision, and spoken a lying divination, when ye say, Jehovah saith; and I have not spoken?

Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain. Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distress, because there is no shepherd.

Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.

but in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings commandments of men.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their teachings commandments of men.

who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

For Christ has not sent me to baptise, but to preach glad tidings; not in wisdom of word, that the cross of the Christ may not be made vain.

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

But I have used none of these things. Now I have not written these things that it should be thus in my case; for it were good for me rather to die than that any one should make vain my boast.

by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, vain also is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

but if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

But as fellow-workmen, we also beseech that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;

Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if indeed also in vain?

I am afraid of you, lest indeed I have laboured in vain as to you.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;

which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,