Vain
What
is vain?
Vain
is pride.
Dictionary
having
or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements.
without
success or result her efforts were in vain.
in
an irreverent or blasphemous manner you shall not take the name of the Lord
your God in vain.
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The
Lord our God detests pride.
We
should never take the Lords name in vain!
Psalm
127;1
[ Prosperity
Comes from the Lord. ] [ A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. ] Unless the
Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord
guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Exodus
20;7
“You
shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will
not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Deuteronomy
5;11
‘You
shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will
not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
1
Samuel 25;21
Now
David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man
has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him;
and he has returned me evil for good.
2
Kings 17;15
They
rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His
warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain,
and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the
Lord had commanded them not to do like them.
Job
9;29
“I
am accounted wicked, Why then should I toil in vain?
Job
21;34
“How
then will you vainly comfort me, For your answers remain full of
falsehood?”
Job
39;16
“She
treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers; Though her labor be
in vain, she is unconcerned.
I
Psalm
2;1
[ The
Reign of the Lord’s Anointed. ] Why are the nations in an uproar And the
peoples devising a vain thing?
Psalm
31;6
I
hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the Lord.
Psalm
60;11
O
give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.
Psalm
62;10
Do
not trust in oppression And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches
increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Psalm
73;13
Surely
in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence.
Psalm
108;12
Oh
give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain.
Psalm
127;1
[ Prosperity
Comes from the Lord. ] [ A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. ] Unless the
Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord
guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Psalm
127;2
It
is vain for you to rise up early, To retire late, To eat the bread of
painful labors; For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.
Psalm
139;20
For
they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Proverbs
31;30
Charm
is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears the Lord,
she shall be praised.
Isaiah
30;7
Even
Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her “Rahab
who has been exterminated.”
Isaiah
49;4
But
I said, “I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and
vanity; Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord, And My reward
with My God.”
Isaiah
65;23
“They
will not labor in vain, Or bear children for calamity; For they
are the offspring of those blessed by the Lord, And their descendants with
them.
Jeremiah
2;30
“In vain
I have struck your sons; They accepted no chastening. Your sword has devoured
your prophets Like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah
4;30
And
you, O desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although
you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold, Although you enlarge your
eyes with paint, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers
despise you; They seek your life.
Jeremiah
6;29
The
bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; In vain the
refining goes on, But the wicked are not separated.
Jeremiah
46;11
Go
up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have
you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.
Ezekiel
6;10
Then
they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would
inflict this disaster on them.”’
Ezekiel
14;23
Then
they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know
that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it,” declares the Lord
God.
Jonah
2;8
“Those
who regard vain idols Forsake their faithfulness.
Zechariah
10;2
For
the teraphim speak iniquity, And the diviners see lying visions And tell false
dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like
sheep, They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
Malachi
3;14
You
have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have
kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
Matthew
15;9
‘But
in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”
Acts
14;15
and
saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same
nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain
things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all
that is in them.
1 Corinthians 15;2
by
which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you,
unless you believed in vain.
1
Corinthians 15;10
But
by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain;
but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with
me.
1
Corinthians 15;14
and
if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith
also is vain.
1
Corinthians 15;58
Therefore,
my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
2
Corinthians 6;1
[ Their
Ministry Commended ] And working together with Him, we also urge you
not to receive the grace of God in vain—
Galatians
2;2
It
was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel
which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who
were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians
3;4
Did
you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
Galatians
4;11
I
fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
I
Philippians
2;16
holding
fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory
because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
1
Thessalonians 2;1
[ Paul’s
Ministry ] For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was
not in vain.
1
Thessalonians 3;5
For
this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out
about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our
labor would be in vain.
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