Bible Verses about 'Vanity'

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• One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility.
  Ecclesiastes 5:10 money greed materialism
• I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
  Ecclesiastes 4:4 work neighbor desires
• So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.
  Ecclesiastes 11:10 sadness worrying heart
• Wealth obtained from nothing dwindles,
  But one who gathers by labor increases it.
  Proverbs 13:11 money greed work
• Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves.
  Philippians 2:3 selfishness humility neighbor
• Keep deception and lies far from me,
  Give me neither poverty nor riches;
  Feed me with the food that is my portion.
  Proverbs 30:8 materialism food money
• For the customs of the peoples are futile;
  For it is wood cut from the forest,
  The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
  They decorate the idol with silver and gold;
  They fasten it with nails and hammers
  So that it will not totter.
  They are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
  And they cannot speak;
  They must be carried,
  Because they cannot walk!
  Do not fear them,
  For they can do no harm,
  Nor can they do any good.
  Jeremiah 10:3-5 idols fear