Bible Verses About Vanity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for vanity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 31,615 votes, led by Proverbs 31:30. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Vanity
Proverbs 31:301,017 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Ecclesiastes 1:2912 votes
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11856 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 119:37834 votes
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Ecclesiastes 5:10762 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
1 Samuel 16:7584 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Ecclesiastes 4:4584 votes
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalms 39:5512 votes
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 144:4458 votes
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecclesiastes 2:26452 votes
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight 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 is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
1 Timothy 4:8446 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Ecclesiastes 12:8422 votes
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Romans 12:2412 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Matthew 6:1-7391 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Romans 8:20380 votes
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Ecclesiastes 1:14366 votes
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:2366 votes
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Jeremiah 4:30362 votes
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.
Ecclesiastes 2:17361 votes
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalms 62:9357 votes
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Job 7:16338 votes
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Hebrews 13:5313 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Galatians 5:16-26312 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Ecclesiastes 2:1304 votes
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-18287 votes
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
What does the Bible say about vanity?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:30 on the subject of vanity. Across 31,615 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Psalms 119:37. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.