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81 Scriptures on Vain

Jeremiah 50:9

For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

Job 15:2

"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 27:12

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Job 39:16

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Job 41:9

Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Job 9:29

I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Judges 11:3

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

Judith 6:4

For with them, we will tread them under foot, and their mountains will be drunken with their blood and their fields will be filled with their dead bodies and their footsteps will not be able to stand before us, for they will utterly perish, as king Nebuchadnezzar, lord of all the earth, has said. And he said, 'None of my words will be in vain.'

Judith 6:9

And if you persuade yourself in your mind that they will be taken, do not let your countenance fall; I have spoken it and none of my words will be in vain."

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Leviticus 26:16

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Malachi 1:10

"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the LORD of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

Mark 7:7

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

Matthew 15:9

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

Matthew 6:7

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

Philippians 2:16

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.

Proverbs 1:17

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

Psalms 108:12

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Psalms 119:118

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Psalms 127:1

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Psalms 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Psalms 139:20

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Psalms 33:17

A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.

Psalms 39:6

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

Psalms 60:11

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Psalms 62:10

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

Psalms 73:13

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

Romans 1:21

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.

Romans 13:4

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.

Titus 1:10

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

Titus 3:9

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

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.


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