Bible Verses about 'Vanity'

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• He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
  Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
  This also is vanity.
  Ecclesiastes 5:10 money greed materialism
• Therefore remove sorrow from your heart,
  And put away evil from your flesh,
  For childhood and youth are vanity.
  Ecclesiastes 11:10 sadness worrying heart
• Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
  Ecclesiastes 4:4 work neighbor desires
• Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished,
  But he who gathers by labor will increase.
  Proverbs 13:11 money greed work
• Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
  Philippians 2:3 selfishness humility neighbor
• Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
  Give me neither poverty nor riches—
  Feed me with the food allotted to me.
  Proverbs 30:8 materialism food money
• For the customs of the peoples are futile;
  For one cuts a tree from the forest,
  The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
  They decorate it with silver and gold;
  They fasten it with nails and hammers
  So that it will not topple.
  They are upright, like a palm tree,
  And they cannot speak;
  They must be carried,
  Because they cannot go by themselves.
  Do not be afraid of them,
  For they cannot do evil,
  Nor can they do any good.
  Jeremiah 10:3-5 idols fear