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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 22:8 NIV
Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.
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Psalm 10:7 NIV
His mouth is full of lies and threats;
    trouble and evil are under his tongue.
173
Psalm 4:2 NIV
How long will you people turn my glory into shame?
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods ?
171
Proverbs 21:6 NIV
A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.
169
2 Kings 17:15 NIV
They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
169
Ecclesiastes 2:17 NIV
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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Psalm 41:6 NIV
When one of them comes to see me,
    he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;
    then he goes out and spreads it around.
161
Proverbs 30:8 NIV
Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.
160
Ecclesiastes 6:9 NIV
Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.
157
Isaiah 57:13 NIV
When you cry out for help,
    let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
    a mere breath will blow them away.
But whoever takes refuge in me
    will inherit the land
    and possess my holy mountain.”
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Jeremiah 18:15 NIV
Yet my people have forgotten me;
    they burn incense to worthless idols,
which made them stumble in their ways,
    in the ancient paths.
They made them walk in byways,
    on roads not built up.
154
Psalm 24:4 NIV
The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
    who does not trust in an idol
    or swear by a false god.
154
Job 7:3 NIV
so I have been allotted months of futility,
    and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
150
Ecclesiastes 2:23 NIV
All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
148
Psalm 31:6 NIV
I hate those who cling to worthless idols;
    as for me, I trust in the Lord.
145
Isaiah 44:9 NIV
All who make idols are nothing,
    and the things they treasure are worthless.
Those who would speak up for them are blind;
    they are ignorant, to their own shame.
144
Colossians 3:5 NIV
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
142
Psalm 78:33 NIV
So he ended their days in futility
    and their years in terror.
140
Ecclesiastes 1:17 NIV
Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
139
Job 11:12 NIV
But the witless can no more become wise
    than a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.
137

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