Bible Verses About Vain
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for vain, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,791 votes, led by Psalms 127:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Vain
Psalms 127:1180 votes
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 60:11145 votes
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Proverbs 31:30124 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
1 Corinthians 15:58124 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:2122 votes
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Matthew 6:7108 votes
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Jeremiah 2:30106 votes
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Psalms 39:668 votes
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Isaiah 1:1365 votes
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1 Corinthians 3:2064 votes
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Philippians 2:357 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Ecclesiastes 2:1155 votes
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Psalms 2:149 votes
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Colossians 2:847 votes
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.
Isaiah 45:1945 votes
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
James 4:542 votes
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Isaiah 30:733 votes
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Psalms 139:2028 votes
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Isaiah 55:226 votes
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Jeremiah 2:525 votes
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?
Psalms 94:1124 votes
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Psalms 139:2424 votes
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Isaiah 45:923 votes
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Psalms 108:1220 votes
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Ecclesiastes 1:1420 votes
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
What does the Bible say about vain?
Readers most often cite Psalms 127:1 on the subject of vain. Across 1,791 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 60:11, Proverbs 31:30, 1 Corinthians 15:58. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.