geneva - vain

geneva@Genesis:11:7 @ Go to, (note:)He speaks as though he took counsel with his own wisdom and power: that is, with the Son and holy Spirit: signifying the greatness and certainty of the punishment.(:note) let us go down, and ...against man's pride and vain... glory. there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

geneva@Genesis:19:17 @ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; (note:)...rich country, full of vain... pleasures.(:note) look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

geneva@Genesis:37:18 @ And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they (note:)...faults of men, as vain writers...(:note) conspired against him to slay him.

geneva@Deuteronomy:32:47 @ For it [is] not a (note:)For I will perform my promise to you, (Isa_55:10).(:note) vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

geneva@Judges:11:3 @ Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of (note:)Where the governor of the country was called Tob.(:note)...and there were gathered vain men...Joined with him, as some think, against his brethren. went out with him.

geneva@2Samuel:6:20 @ Then David returned to (note:)That is, to pray for his house, as he had done for the people.(:note)...as one of the vain fellows...

geneva@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great (note:)Thus God turned his vain glory to shame.(:note) pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

geneva@2Kings:18:20 @ Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] (note:)You think that words will serve to persuade your people, or to move my master.(:note) counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

geneva@2Kings:20:13 @ And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his (note:)...moved by ambition and vain glory,...(:note) dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

geneva@2Chronicles:13:7 @ And there are gathered unto him (note:)This word in the Chaldee tongue is Racha, which our saviour uses, (Mat_5:22).(:note) vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was Meaning, in heart and courage. young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

geneva@2Chronicles:17:7 @ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to (note:)...knew it was in vain to...(:note) teach in the cities of Judah.

geneva@2Chronicles:36:17 @ Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword (note:)Where they fled, thinking to have been saved for the holiness of it.(:note) in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he ...led with ambition and vain glory,... gave [them] all into his hand.

geneva@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of (note:)That is, of the country of Idumea, (Lam_4:21), or bordering on it: for the land was called by the name of Uz, the son of Dishan, the son of Seir (Gen_36:28).(:note) Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and Since he was a Gentile and not a Jew and yet is pronounced upright and without hypocrisy, it declares that among the heathen God revealed himself. upright, and By this it is declared what is meant by an upright and just man. one that feared God, and eschewed evil. The Argument -...him off, therefore in vain he...(Eze_14:14) and James sets out his patience for an example, (Jam_5:11).

geneva@Job:11:12 ...For vain man...[like] a wild (note:)That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature.(:note) ass's colt.

geneva@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter (note:)That is, vain words, and without consolation?(:note) vain knowledge, and fill his belly Meaning, with matters that are of no importance, which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls. with the east wind?

geneva@Job:15:35 @ They (note:)Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction.(:note) conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

geneva@Job:16:3 @ Shall (note:)Which serve for vain ostentation and for no true comfort.(:note) vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

geneva@Job:39:16 @ She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is (note:)If he should take care of them.(:note) in vain without fear;

geneva@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the (note:)The conspiracy of the Gentiles, the murmuring of the Jews and power of kings cannot prevail against Christ.(:note)...the people imagine a vain... thing?

geneva@Psalms:26:4 @ I have not (note:)He declares that they cannot walk in simplicity before God, that delight in the company of the ungodly.(:note) sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

geneva@Psalms:47:7 @ For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with (note:)...God be profaned with vain... crying.(:note) understanding.

geneva@Psalms:59:14 @ And at evening let them (note:)He mocks their vain enterprises, being assured that they will not bring their purpose to pass.(:note) return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

geneva@Psalms:62:10 @ Trust not in oppression, and (note:)Give yourselves wholly to God by putting away all things that are contrary to his law.(:note) become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].

geneva@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and (note:)...men that it is vain to...(Joh_19:29).(:note) I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

geneva@Psalms:73:20 @ As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when (note:)...we contemn all their vain... pomp.(:note) thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

geneva@Psalms:83:18 @ That [men] may (note:)...that it is in vain to...(:note) know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

geneva@Psalms:118:8 @ [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence (note:)...he had trusted in vain if...(:note) in man.

geneva@Psalms:119:46 @ I will speak of thy testimonies also before (note:)...be obscured by the vain pomp...(:note) kings, and will not be ashamed.

geneva@Psalms:127:1 @ «A Song of degrees for Solomon.» Except the LORD (note:)That is, govern and dispose all things pertaining to the family.(:note)...house, they labour in vain that...The public estate of the commonwealth. city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.

geneva@Psalms:127:2 @ [It is] vain for (note:)Who watch and ward and are also magistrates and rulers of the city.(:note) you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread Either that which is gained by hard labour, or eaten with grief of mind. of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved Not exempting them from labour, but making their labours comfortable and as it were a rest. sleep.

geneva@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in (note:)...which he forbids all vain confidence...(:note) princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

geneva@Psalms:146:4 @ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his (note:)As their vain opinions, by which they flattered themselves and so imagined wicked enterprises.(:note) thoughts perish.

geneva@Proverbs:22:13 @ The slothful [man] saith, (note:)...derides them that invent vain excuses,...(:note) [There is] a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know (note:)That is, vain things, which served to pleasure, in which was no convenience, but grief and trouble of conscience.(:note) madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ And this also [is] a grievous evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the (note:)Meaning, in vain and without profit.(:note) wind?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knoweth what [is] (note:)There is no state in which man can live to have perfect quietness in this life.(:note) good for man in [this]...the days of his vain life...

geneva@Isaiah:2:7 @ Their land also is full of (note:)...covetousness and thirdly their vain trust...(:note) silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:

geneva@Isaiah:2:16 @ And upon (note:)...merchandise which brought in vain pleasures...(:note) all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

geneva@Isaiah:2:22 @ Cease ye from man, whose (note:)Cast off your vain confidence in man, whose life is so frail that if his nose is stopped he is dead and consider that you are dealing with God.(:note) breath [is] in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed?

geneva@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (note:)Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them, (Jer_48:2).(:note) lies [shall] not [be] so.

geneva@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a (note:)They thought they had shifts to avoid God's judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.(:note) covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under ...condemned their idols and vain fruit... falsehood have we hid ourselves:

geneva@Isaiah:28:17 @ Judgment also will I lay to the line, and (note:)In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice will reign.(:note) righteousness to the plummet: and the God's corrections and affliction. hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow Affliction will discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves. the hiding place.

geneva@Isaiah:29:1 @ Woe to (note:)Or Ariel: the Hebrew word Ariel signifies the Lion of God, and signifies the Altar, because the altar seemed to devour the sacrifice that was offered to God, as in (Eze_43:16).(:note) Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; Your vain confidence in your sacrifices will not last long. let them kill sacrifices.

geneva@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the (note:)...which you place your vain trust...(:note) multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

geneva@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the cormorant (note:)Read (Isa_13:21; Zep_2:14).(:note) and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of In vain will any man go about to build it again. confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

geneva@Isaiah:36:5 @ I say, (note:)He speaks this in the person of Hezekiah, falsely charging him that he put his trust in his wit and eloquence, while his only confidence was in the Lord.(:note) [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

geneva@Isaiah:36:6 @ Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which if a man lean, it will enter his hand, and pierce it: so [is] (note:)...godly king from one vain confidence...(:note) Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

geneva@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they (note:)...knew it was in vain to...(:note) held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

geneva@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be (note:)...God detested ambition and vain... glory.(:note) carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

geneva@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast (note:)...God, condemning also such vain sciences,...(:note) laboured from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, (note:)They did not teach the people to seek after God.(:note) Where [is] the LORD? and they that handle the As the scribes, who would have expounded the law to the people. law knew me not: the Meaning, the princes and ministers: signifying, that all estates were corrupt. rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by That is, spoke vain things, and brought the people from the true worship of God to serve idols: for by Baal, which was the chief idol of the Moabites, are meant all idols. Baal, and walked after [things that] do not profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:13 @ For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me (note:)...their own inventions, and vain confidence,...(Jon_2:8; Zec_10:2).(:note) the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:30 ...In vain have...(note:)That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhorted you to repentance, as Zechariah, Isaiah, etc.(:note) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

geneva@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (note:)Neither your ceremonies nor rich gifts will deliver you.(:note)...eyes with painting, in vain shalt...[thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

geneva@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] (note:)They delight to hear vain things, and to shut up their ears to true doctrine.(:note) uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust ye not in (note:)...in your sin, and vain... confidence.(:note) lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

geneva@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For (note:)...the word they were vain and...(:note) I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

geneva@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is]...us? Lo, certainly in vain he...[it]; (note:)The law does not profit you neither need it to have been written for all that you have learned by it.(:note) the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.

geneva@Jeremiah:8:22 @ [Is there] no balm (note:)Meaning,that no man's help or means could save them: for in Gilead was precious balm, (Jer_46:11)...or else deriding the vain confidence...(Hos_6:8).(:note) in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

geneva@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the (note:)...shows that it is vain to...(:note) wise [man] glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

geneva@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their (note:)...to wickedness and seek vain... help.(:note) course is evil, and their force [is] not right.

geneva@Jeremiah:25:5 @ They (note:)...from idolatry and the vain confidence...(2Ki_17:13; Jer_18:11, Jer_35:15; Jon_3:8).(:note) said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given to you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

geneva@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah, (note:)...and take it in vain as...(:note) The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

geneva@Jeremiah:46:11 @ Go up into Gilead, (note:)For at Gilead there grew a most sovereign balm for wounds.(:note) and take balm, O virgin, the So called, because Egypt had not yet been overcome by the enemy....daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt...He sows that no salve or medicine can prevail where God gives the wound. medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:7 @ For because thou hast trusted in thy (note:)That is, the idols which are the works your hands. Some read, in your possessions, for so the word may signify as in (1Sa_25:2).(:note) works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and ...that it is in vain to...(Isa_15:2). Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.

geneva@Lamentations:2:14 @ Thy prophets have (note:)Because the false prophets called themselves seers, as the others were called, therefore he shows that they saw amiss because they did not reprove the people's faults, but flattered them in their sins, which was the cause of their destruction.(:note) seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

geneva@Lamentations:4:17 @...yet failed for our vain help:...(note:)...their cruelty and their vain confidence...(:note) a nation [that] could not save [us].

geneva@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they [are] (note:)Contrary to their vain confidence he shows in what sense the city is the caldron: that is, because of the dead bodies that have been murdered in it, and so lit as flesh in the caldron.(:note) the flesh, and this [city is] the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:7 @...ye not seen a vain vision,...(note:)You promised peace to this people and now you see their destruction, so that it is revealed that you are false prophets.(:note) ye say, The LORD saith [it]; although I have not spoken?

geneva@Ezekiel:28:12 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of (note:)He derides the vain opinion and confidence that the Tyrians had in their riches, strength and pleasures.(:note) wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

geneva@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made (note:)...his own ambition and vain glory:...(:note) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

geneva@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet (note:)...that it was in vain to...(:note) let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.

geneva@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feedeth (note:)...is, flatters himself with vain... confidence.(:note) on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and Meaning presents to get friendship. oil is carried into Egypt.

geneva@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, thou (note:)...own malice, idolatry, and vain confidence...(:note) hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.

geneva@Hosea:14:3 @ Asshur shall (note:)We will forsake all vain confidence and pride.(:note) not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

geneva@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses (note:)...which it is in vain to...(:note) run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into Read (Amo_5:7). hemlock:

geneva@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy (note:)...confidence, such as your vain... self-reliance and idolatry, and in doing this I will be helping you.(:note) horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

geneva@Zechariah:12:12 @ And the (note:)That is, in all places where the Jews will remain.(:note) land shall mourn, every family ...would not be a vain ceremony:... apart; the family of the Under these certain families he includes all the tribes, and shows that both the kings and the priests had by their sins pierced Christ. house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

geneva@Matthew:6:7 @ But when ye pray, use not (note:)...are not condemned, but vain, needless,...(:note) vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

geneva@Luke:22:20 @ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This (note:)...neither is it a vain sign,...(:note) cup [is] This word «the» shows the excellency of the testament, and corresponds to (Jer_31:31) where the new testament is promised. the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

geneva@John:14:2 @ In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], (note:)...this way with a vain hope,...(:note) I would have told you. I go to This whole speech is an allegory, by which the Lord comforts his own, declaring to them his departure into heaven; and he departs not to reign there alone, but to go before and prepare a place for them. prepare a place for you.

geneva@Romans:1:21 @ Because that, when they knew God, they (note:)They did not honour him with that honour and service which was appropriate for his everlasting power and Godhead.(:note) glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became As if he said, became so corrupt in themselves. vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:5 @ That in every thing ye are enriched by him, (note:)He refers to that by name which they abused the most.(:note) in Seeing that while we live here we know but in part, and prophesy in part, this word «all» must be limited by the present state of the faithful: and by «utterance»...does not mean a vain kind... all utterance, and [in] all knowledge;

geneva@1Corinthians:1:28 @ And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which (note:)Which in man's judgment are almost nothing.(:note) are not, to bring to ...show that they are vain and...{{See Rom_3:31}} nought things that are:

geneva@1Corinthians:2:12 @ Now we have received, not the (note:)The Spirit which we have received does not teach us things of this world, but lifts us up to God, and this verse teaches us the opposite of what the papists teach: what faith is, from where it comes, and from what power it originates.(:note) spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; ...thrust upon us their vain imaginations... that we might This word «know» is taken here in its proper sense for true knowledge, which the Spirit of God works in us. know the things that are freely given to us of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:3:15 @ If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (note:)...the loss of their vain... labours.(:note) he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

geneva@1Corinthians:12:1 @ Now (note:)...abused them to a vain display,...(:note) concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you Ignorant to what purpose these gifts are given to you. ignorant.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though (note:)He reasons first of charity, the excellency of which he first shows by this, that without it, all other gifts are as nothing before God. And this he proves partly by an induction, and partly also by an argument taken of the end, for what reason those gifts are given. For, to what purpose are those gifts but to God's glory, and the profit of the Church as is before proved? So that those gifts, without charity, have no right use.(:note) I speak with the tongues of men and of A very earnest amplifying of the matter, as if he said, «...nothing else except a vain and...» angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a That gives a rude and uncertain sound. tinkling cymbal.

geneva@1Corinthians:14:11 @ Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that (note:)...themselves a name of vain... learning.(:note) speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:17 @ And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; (note:)...punishment of sin, in vain should...(:note) ye are They are yet in their sins who are not sanctified, nor have obtained remission of their sins. yet in your sins.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:49 @ And as we have borne the (note:)Not a vain and false image, but such a one as indeed had the truth with it.(:note) image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

geneva@2Corinthians:11:1 @ Would (note:)...them deceived by certain vain and...(:note) to God ye could bear with me a little in [my] folly: and indeed bear with me.

geneva@2Corinthians:12:9 @ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. (note:)...his miseries against the vain braggings...(:note) Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may That I might feel the power of Christ more and more: for the weaker that our tabernacles are, the more does Christ's power appear in them. rest upon me.

geneva@Colossians:3:1 @ If (note:)...by reason of those vain exercises,...(:note) ye then Our renewing or new birth, which is accomplished in us by being partakers of the resurrection of Christ, is the source of all holiness, out of which various streams or rivers afterwards flow. be For if we are partakers of Christ, we are carried as it were into another life, where we will need neither meat nor drink, for we will be similar to the angels. risen with Christ, The end and mark which all the duties of Christian life aim at is to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and to give ourselves to those things which lead us there, that is, to true godliness, and not to those outward and physical things. seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:11 @ For we hear that there are some which walk among (note:)...created no man in vain or...(:note) you disorderly, working not at all, He reprehends a vice, which is joined with the former, upon which follows an infinite sort of mischiefs: that is, that there are none more busy in other men's matters, than they who neglect their own. but are busybodies.

geneva@1Timothy:6:5 @ Perverse (note:)...are nothing else but vain babbling...(:note) disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

geneva@James:5:1 @ Go (note:)...is nothing indeed more vain than...(:note) to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

geneva@2Peter:2:18 @ For when they speak great (note:)They deceive with vain and swelling words.(:note) swelling [words] of vanity, they They take them, as fish are taken with the hook. allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were Unfeignedly and indeed, clean departed from idolatry. clean escaped from them who live in error.

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