Bible Verses About Vanity

Therefore I say this — indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.

Some, by aiming amiss, have wandered off into fruitless discussion.

They want to be teachers of Torah, but they understand neither their own words nor the matters about which they make such emphatic pronouncements.

For although physical exercise does have some value, godliness is valuable for everything, since it holds promise both for the present life and for the life to come.

Oh, Timothy! Keep safe what has been entrusted to you. Turn away from the ungodly babblings and the argumentative opposition of what is falsely called “knowledge.”

Keep reminding people of this, and charge them solemnly before the Lord not to engage in word-battles. They accomplish nothing useful and are a catastrophe for the hearers!

But keep away from godless babbling, for those who engage in it will only become more ungodly,

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are worthless and futile.

Do not be carried away by various strange teachings; for what is good is for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods. People who have made these the focus of their lives have not benefited thereby.

Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is such “faith” able to save him?

You should be aware that the ransom paid to free you from the worthless way of life which your fathers passed on to you did not consist of anything perishable like silver or gold;

Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.