Bible Verses About Vanity

This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:

From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:

Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.

Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they grow much towards ungodliness.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: