Vain

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

…then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

…and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

…who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.

…as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and that our labor might have been in vain.