They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are 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 hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].
And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] 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 within the house of Israel.
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;
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