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100 Bible Verses about Vain Words

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 140 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Exodus 20:7 ESV / 121 helpful votes

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:11 ESV / 109 helpful votes

“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 98 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 96 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Therefore, 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.

James 1:26 ESV / 82 helpful votes

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 81 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 80 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

John 3:16 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 139:20 ESV / 73 helpful votes

They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 71 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 70 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Galatians 3:4 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 68 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:1 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 65 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 65 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Job 15:2 ESV / 64 helpful votes

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

John 3:2 ESV / 63 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Matthew 12:36-37 ESV / 63 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 62 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 61 helpful votes

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 61 helpful votes

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Jeremiah 10:3-5 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Ecclesiastes 10:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes

The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

John 6:63 ESV / 58 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 58 helpful votes

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 58 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 31:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows?

James 1:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

1 Samuel 12:21 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

1 Corinthians 15:14 ESV / 55 helpful votes

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

John 14:26 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Isaiah 49:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”

Deuteronomy 5:11-12 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Job 27:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Job 21:34 ESV / 52 helpful votes

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Job 16:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 11:11 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

Job 9:29 ESV / 52 helpful votes

I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

Psalm 127:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

For 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.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Acts 2:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 48 helpful votes

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

James 2:20 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 45 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...

Proverbs 15:23 ESV / 43 helpful votes

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 42 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 14:19 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

John 5:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

John 15:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

2 Timothy 2:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But 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.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Matthew 12:37 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 7:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’

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