Matt.15.9in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Mark.7.7in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Acts.4.25who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “ ‘ Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts.14.15Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
Rom.13.4for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
1Cor.15.2and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1Cor.15.10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
1Cor.15.14And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1Cor.15.58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
2Cor.6.1Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2Cor.9.3But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
Gal.2.2I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Gal.3.4Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?
Gal.4.11I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Phil.2.16holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
1Thess.2.1For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.
1Thess.3.5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
1Tim.1.6Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,