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What Does the Bible Say About Vanity?

Here are 8 Bible verses about vanity, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Proverbs 31:30

    Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

    BSBCharm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

  2. #2Ecclesiastes 1:2

    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

    BSB“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

  3. #3Ecclesiastes 2:11

    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

    BSBYet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

  4. #4Psalms 119:37

    Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

    BSBTurn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

  5. #5Ecclesiastes 5:10

    He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

    BSBHe who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.

  6. #61 Samuel 16:7

    But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

    BSBBut the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

  7. #7Ecclesiastes 4:4

    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.

    BSBI saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  8. #8Psalms 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. Selah.

    BSBYou, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

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