Bible Verses About Vanity

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;