Vanity
Excessive concern with appearance and self-importance, warned against throughout Scripture. Ecclesiastes uses 'vanity' (hebel) to describe the futility of life apart from God: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity' (Ecclesiastes 1:2, ESV). Proverbs 31:30 declares, 'Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.' First Samuel 16:7 reveals God's perspective: 'The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.' Isaiah 40:6-8 compares human glory to withering grass and fading flowers, contrasted with God's word that 'endures forever.' True significance comes from God, not self-promotion.
Verses about Vanity
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เฉลยธรรมบัญญัติ 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with …
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1 พงศ์กษัตริย์ 16:13
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Is…
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1 พงศ์กษัตริย์ 16:26
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger…
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2 พงศ์กษัตริย์ 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they follo…
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โยบ 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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โยบ 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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โยบ 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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โยบ 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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โยบ 31:5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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โยบ 35:13
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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สดุดี 4:2
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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สดุดี 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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สดุดี 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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สดุดี 24:4
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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สดุดี 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
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สดุดี 39:5
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. Se…
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สดุดี 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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สดุดี 41:6
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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สดุดี 62:9
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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สดุดี 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.