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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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2 Kings 17
:15
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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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Job 7
:3
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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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Job 15
:31
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If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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Job 31
:5
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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Job 35
:13
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O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
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Psalms 4
:2
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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Psalms 10
:7
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They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Psalms 12
:2
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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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Psalms 24
:4
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Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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Psalms 39
:5
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And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
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Psalms 41
:6
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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Psalms 62
:9
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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Psalms 78
:33
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The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
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Psalms 94
:11
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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
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Psalms 119
:37
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Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Psalms 144
:4
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Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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Proverbs 13
:11
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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Proverbs 21
:6
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
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Proverbs 22
:8
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Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Proverbs 30
:8
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 1
:2
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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 2
:1
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For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 3
:19
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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Ecclesiastes 4
:4
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 5
:10
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A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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Ecclesiastes 6
:2
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For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 7
:6
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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 8
:10
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Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 9
:9
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But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 11
:8
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Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
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Ecclesiastes 12
:8
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Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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Isaiah 5
:18
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And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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Isaiah 30
:28
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All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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Isaiah 40
:17
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Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
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Isaiah 41
:29
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They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
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Isaiah 44
:9
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When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
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Isaiah 57
:13
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Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
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Isaiah 58
:9
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None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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Isaiah 59
:4
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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?
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Jeremiah 2
:5
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They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Jeremiah 10
:15
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O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Jeremiah 16
:19
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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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Jeremiah 18
:15
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They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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Jeremiah 51
:18
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They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
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Ezekiel 13
:6
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Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
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Ezekiel 21
:29
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And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
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Ezekiel 22
:28
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Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
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Hosea 12
:11
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Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
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Habakkuk 2
:13
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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
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Zechariah 10
:2
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For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
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Romans 8
:20
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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Ephesians 4
:17
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For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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2 Peter 2
:18
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