Bible Verses About Vanity

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”

Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.

But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.