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Want to know what the Bible says about Vanity? Here are 263 Bible verses about Vanity from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 31:30 NIV
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
    but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
812
Psalm 119:37 NIV
Turn my eyes away from worthless things;
    preserve my life according to your word.
658
Ecclesiastes 1:2 NIV
“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”
583
Ecclesiastes 2:11 NIV
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
    and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
    nothing was gained under the sun.
579
Ecclesiastes 5:10 NIV
Whoever loves money never has enough;
    whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
    This too is meaningless.
547
1 Samuel 16:7 NIV
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
501
Psalm 39:5 NIV
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,
    even those who seem secure.
447
1 Timothy 4:8 NIV
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
397
Ecclesiastes 4:4 NIV
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
392
Psalm 144:4 NIV
They are like a breath;
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.
355
Romans 12:2 NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.
342
Romans 8:20 NIV
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
328
Jeremiah 4:30 NIV
What are you doing, you devastated one?
    Why dress yourself in scarlet
    and put on jewels of gold?
Why highlight your eyes with makeup?
    You adorn yourself in vain.
Your lovers despise you;
    they want to kill you.
323
Psalm 62:9 NIV
Surely the lowborn are but a breath,
    the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
    together they are only a breath.
304
Job 7:16 NIV
I despise my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
296
Ecclesiastes 2:26 NIV
To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
292
Ecclesiastes 12:8 NIV
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.
    “Everything is meaningless!
286
Ecclesiastes 1:14 NIV
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
281
Hebrews 13:5 NIV
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”
270
Psalm 39:11 NIV
When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
    you consume their wealth like a moth
    surely everyone is but a breath.
257

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