Haller's Concordance: VAIN
- She said: Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee, because it has now happened to me according to the custom of women. So his careful search was in vain. Gen. 31:35
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. Ex. 20:7
- I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies. Lev. 26:16
- Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit. Lev. 26:20
- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing. Dt. 5:11
- For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. Dt. 32:47
- And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few? Josu. 7:3
- And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain. 1 Ki. 12:21
- And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. 1 Ki. 25:21
- And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them. 2 Par. 13:7
- Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand. 2 Par. 32:15
- And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? Job 1:9
- The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish. Job 6:18
- But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain? Job 9:29
- A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt. Job 11:12
- He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. Job 12:24
- How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth? Job 21:34
- Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause? Job 27:12
- God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one. Job 35:13
- Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge. Job 35:16
- She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her. Job 39:16
- ¤ Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? Ps. 2:1
- For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain. Ps. 5:9
- They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. Ps. 12:2
- The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. Ps. 24:4
- Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength. Ps. 33:17
- And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long. Ps. 38:12
- Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. Ps. 39:6
- Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted. Ps. 39:11
- And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose. Ps. 41:6
- Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man. Ps. 60:11
- But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. Ps. 62:9
- But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth: Ps. 63:9
- And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent. Ps. 73:13
- Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? Ps. 89:47
- The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain. Ps. 94:11
- O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Ps. 108:12
- ¤ Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. Ps. 127:1
- It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved, Ps. 127:2
- Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain. Ps. 139:20
- But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings. Pr. 1:17
- A man shall be known by his learning: but he that is vain and foolish, shall be exposed to contempt. Pr. 12:8
- He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death. Pr. 21:6
- As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools. Pr. 26:7
- Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Pr. 31:30
- And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun. Eccl. 2:11
- Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there anything so vain? Eccl. 2:19
- For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten. Eccl. 6:4
- There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain. Eccl. 8:14
- Remove anger from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain. Eccl. 11:10
- For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable. Wis. 3:11
- ¤ But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: Wis. 13:1
- And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again. Wis. 15:8
- But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things. Wis. 15:9
- For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay: Wis. 15:10
- He that wanteth understanding thinketh vain things, and the foolish, and erring man, thinketh foolish things. Sir. 16:23
- A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise. Sir. 20:21
- And if he swear in vain, he shall not be justified: for his house shall be filled with his punishment. Sir. 23:14
- ¤ The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. Sir. 34:1
- Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. Isa. 1:13
- That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just. Isa. 29:21
- For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still. Isa. 30:7
- Behold they are all in the wrong, and their works are vain: their idols are wind and vanity. Isa. 41:29
- For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other. Isa. 45:18
- I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things. Isa. 45:19
- And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. Isa. 49:4
- His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. Isa. 56:10
- My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them. Isa. 65:23
- 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? Jer. 2:5
- In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion. Jer. 2:30
- But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life. Jer. 4:30
- The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed. Jer. 6:29
- For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe. Jer. 10:3
- They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Jer. 10:15
- Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden: Jer. 18:15
- Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee. Jer. 46:11
- For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain. Jer. 50:9
- They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Jer. 51:18
- Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save. Lam. 4:17
- And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them. Ezec. 6:10
- For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel. Ezec. 12:24
- They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said. Ezec. 13:6
- Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken. Ezec. 13:7
- Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have spoken vain things, and have seen lies: therefore behold I come against you, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 13:8
- And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God. Ezec. 13:9
- Therefore you shall not see vain things, nor divine divinations any more, and I will deliver my people out of your hand: and you shall know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 13:23
- And he shall be in their eyes as one consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating the leisure of sabbaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may be taken. Ezec. 21:23
- Whilst they see vain things in thy regard, and they divine lies: to bring thee upon the necks of the wicked that are wounded, whose appointed day is come in the time of iniquity. Ezec. 21:29
- And her prophets have daubed them without tempering the mortar, seeing vain things, and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the Lord hath not spoken. Ezec. 22:28
- If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field. Osee 12:11
- They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy. Jonas 2:8
- Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint. Hab. 2:13
- For the idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a flock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd. Zach. 10:2
- And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts? Mal. 3:14
- And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise was in vain. 1 Ma. 9:68
- But thou, O wicked, and of all men most flagitious, be not lifted up without cause with vain hopes, whilst thou art raging against his servants. 2 Ma. 7:34
- (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,) 2 Ma. 12:44
- And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men. Mt. 15:9
- And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men. Mk. 7:7
- Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? Acts 4:25
- And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them: Acts 14:15
- Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. Rom. 1:21
- For he is God's minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is God's minister: an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. Rom. 13:4
- And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 1 Cor. 3:20
- By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. 1 Cor. 15:2
- And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain. 1 Cor. 15:14
- And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins. 1 Cor. 15:17
- Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Cor. 15:58
- ¤ And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor. 6:1
- And I went up according to revelation and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles: but apart to them who seemed to be some thing: lest perhaps I should run or had run in vain. Gal. 2:2
- I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain. Gal. 2:21
- Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain. Gal. 3:4
- I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I have laboured in vain among you. Gal. 4:11
- Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Gal. 5:26
- Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Eph. 5:6
- Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves: Phil. 2:3
- Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain. Phil. 2:16
- Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. Col. 2:8
- Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh: Col. 2:18
- ¤ For yourselves know, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: 1 Th. 2:1
- For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain. 1 Th. 3:5
- From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling: 1 Tim. 1:6
- But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness. 2 Tim. 2:16
- For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision. Tit. 1:10
- But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain. Tit. 3:9
- And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Jas. 1:26
- But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Jas. 2:20
- Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you? Jas. 4:5
- Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: 1 Pet. 1:18