'Vain' in the Bible

In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?