Nave’s Topical Bible
Vanity
79 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- A consequence of the fall
- Every man has
- Every state of man is
- Man, at his best estate, is
- Man is similar to
- The thoughts of man are
- The days of man are
- Childhood and youth are
- The beauty of man is
- The help of man is
- Man's own righteousness is
- Worldly wisdom is
- Worldly pleasure is
- Worldy anxiety is
- Worldly labor is
- Worldly enjoyment is
- Worldly possessions are
- Treasures of wickedness are
- Heaping up riches is
- Love of riches is
- Unblessed riches are
- Riches gotten by falsehood are
- All earthly things are
- Foolish questions are
1 Timothy 1:6-7; 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:14,16; Titus 3:9
- The conduct of the ungodly is
- The religion of hypocrites is
- The worship of the wicked is
- Lying words are
- False teaching is but
- Mere external religion is
- Almsgiving without love is
- Faith without works is
- Idolatry is
2 Kings 17:15; Psalms 31:6; Isaiah 44:9-10; Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 18:15
- Wealth gotten by, diminishes
- Saints hate the thoughts of
- Pray to be kept from
- Avoid
- Avoid those given to
- Evil people
- Especially characterized by
- Though full of, affect to be wise
- Love
- Imagine
- Devise
- Speak
- Regard God's service as
- Allure others through the words of
- Live by
- Live in
- Inherit
- Reap
- Judicially given up to
- Fools follow those given to
- Following those given to, leads to poverty
- All should know and acknowledge
See PRIDE
Bible verses about “Vanity”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Romans 8:20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 62:9Surely 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.
- Psalms 39:5Behold, 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 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Psalms 94:11The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
- Job 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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?
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
- Proverbs 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
- Psalms 60:11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
- Lamentations 4:17As 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.
- Isaiah 57:12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- 1 Corinthians 3:20And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
- Ecclesiastes 2:1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- Psalms 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Then 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.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, 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.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
- Ecclesiastes 2:5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
- Ecclesiastes 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- Ecclesiastes 2:7I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
- Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
- Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
- Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26For 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.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2A 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.
- Proverbs 21:6The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- 1 Timothy 1:6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
- 1 Timothy 1:7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
- 1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
- 2 Timothy 2:14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.