Vanity

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

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.

Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

And thou, when thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair; thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life.

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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

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

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; Forso he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he 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.

Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah — read the full passage →

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? How longwill ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? [Selah

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

And if he come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

A high look, and a proud heart, Eventhe lamp of the wicked, is sin.

But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity. — read the full passage →

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.

Pridegoethbefore destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?

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

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

Be not carried away by divers and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be established by grace; not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — read the full passage →

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

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

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.