16 occurrences

'Vain' in the Bible

then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit.

Verse ConceptsUseless Labour

She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,

Verse ConceptsStrictness

You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfAvoiding DeceitLoving EvilPsalm Interjections

The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.

Verse ConceptsMouthsDeception In Fallen Human NatureSpeech, Negative Aspects OfFalse WisdomDeceitful Tongues

who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.

Verse Conceptsaccomplishment

They won't toil in vain nor bear children doomed to misfortune, for they will be offspring blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

Verse ConceptsFutureBad ParentsUseless LabourGod BlessesRaising ChildrenFamily Problems

You are ruined! What are you doing dressing in scarlet, putting on golden ornaments, and highlighting your eyes with makeup? You are making yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers reject you they're out to kill you.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.

Verse ConceptsdoctorsBalmsMedicineOintmentVirginNo Healingvirginity

Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ConfidenceDisappointmentsMan Keeping WatchTowersEyes HarmedUseless LabourNo HelpThings Which Cannot Save

"There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsUseless IdolsCairnsSacrificing Cattle

Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionGod, Uniqueness OfWasteVanityUseless IdolsIdolatry

Bible Theasaurus

Conceited (15 instances)
Flushed (2 instances)
Forward (296 instances)
Fruitless (19 instances)
Futile (53 instances)
Inflated (9 instances)
Self-Conceited (1 instance)
Swollen (9 instances)

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