1 Samuel 12:21
"And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain."
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- Habakkuk 2:18
"What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 10:15
"They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 16:19
"O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 11:16
"Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 14:22
"Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 8:4
"As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one."
Read in chapter → - Jonah 2:8
"They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 44:9
"They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 46:7
"They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 2:13
"For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."
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