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18 Bible Verses About Vanity

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  • In Ecclesiastes, Psalm 144:4 and Proverbs 31:30, vanity or its equivalent translates the Hebrew hebel, vapor or breath.
  • Ecclesiastes opens with “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (1:2), repeats it in 12:8, and ends with the command to fear God and keep his commandments (12:13).
  • In Luke 12:20, God asks the rich fool “whose will those things be,” the matter Psalm 39:6 raises when it says the one who heaps up riches “does not know who will gather them.”
  • The conceit of Philippians 2:3 is kenodoxia, empty glory, which the King James Version translates “vainglory.”
  • Matthew 6 applies the same warning to giving, prayer and fasting done to be seen: “they have their reward.”

The Bible uses vanity in two senses: what passes like a breath, and the empty glory a person seeks. Ecclesiastes opens with “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (1:2), and Psalm 144:4 calls a human life a breath. Paul warns against conceit (Philippians 2:3), and Jesus against doing good to be seen (Matthew 6:1). In Ecclesiastes and the psalms the Hebrew word is hebel, vapor or breath, and Proverbs 31:30 uses it for beauty that is “passing.” The conceit of…

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Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 1892, הֶבֶל (hebel): vapor, breath; figuratively vanity. biblehub.com/hebrew/1892

Strong’s Greek 2754, κενοδοξία (kenodoxia): vainglory, empty conceit; from kenos, empty, and doxa, glory. biblehub.com/greek/2754

Strong’s Greek 2755, κενόδοξος (kenodoxos): vainglorious. biblehub.com/greek/2755

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