NONE.filter - geneva vanity:

geneva@Job:7:3 @ So am I made to possess (note:)My sorrow has continued from month to month, and I have looked for hope in vain.(:note) months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

geneva@Job:7:16 @ I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: (note:)Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and ease.(:note) let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

geneva@Job:15:31 @ Let not him that is (note:)He stands in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride will bring him to destruction.(:note) deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

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@Psalms:4:2 @ O ye (note:)You who think yourselves noble in this world.(:note) sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye Though your enterprises please you, yet God will bring them to nothing. love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

geneva@Psalms:12:2 @ They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] (note:)He means the flatters of the court which hurt him more with their tongues than with their weapons.(:note) flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

geneva@Psalms:39:5 @ Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether (note:)Yet David offended in that he reasoned with God as though he were too severe toward his weak creature.(:note) vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:39:11 @ When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou (note:)Though your open plagues do not light on them forever, yet your secret curse continually frets them.(:note) makest his The word signifies all that he desires, as health, force, strength, beauty, and in whatever he has delight, so that the rod of God takes away all that is desired in this world. beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:41:6 @ And if he come to see [me], he speaketh (note:)For pretending to comfort me, he conspires my death in his heart, and brags of it.(:note) vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

geneva@Psalms:45:4 @ And in thy majesty (note:)He alludes to them, who ride in chariots in their triumphs, showing that the quiet state of a kingdom stands in truth, meekness and justice, and not in worldly pomp and vanity.(:note) ride prosperously because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

geneva@Psalms:68:4 @ Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name (note:)Jah and Jehovah are the names of God, signifying his incomprehensible essence and majesty, so that by this it is declared that all idols are vanity and that the God of Israel is the only true God.(:note) JAH, and rejoice before him.

geneva@Psalms:115:7 @ They have (note:)He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and reason.(:note) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

geneva@Psalms:116:11 @ I said in my (note:)In my great distress I thought God would not regard man, who is but lies and vanity, yet I overcame this temptation and felt the contrary.(:note) haste, All men [are] liars.

geneva@Psalms:119:29 @ Remove from me the (note:)Instruct me in your word, by which my mind may be purged from vanity and taught to obey your will.(:note) way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

geneva@Psalms:119:37 @ Turn away mine (note:)Meaning, all his senses.(:note) eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

geneva@Psalms:144:8 @ Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand (note:)For though they shake hands, they do not keep their promises.(:note) of falsehood.

geneva@Proverbs:22:8 @ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the (note:)His authority by which he oppressed others, will be taken from him.(:note) rod of his anger shall fail.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said in my heart, Come now, I will tempt (note:)Solomon makes this discourse with himself, as though he would try whether there was contentment in ease and pleasures.(:note) thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my (note:)This was the fruit of all my labour, a certain pleasure mixed with care, which he calls vanity in the next verse.(:note) portion of all my labour.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured in it shall he (note:)Among other griefs that was not the least, to leave that which he had gotten by great travail, to one who had taken no pain therefore and whom he know not whether he were a wise man or a fool.(:note) leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing (note:)Man is not able by his reason and judgment to put differences between man and beast, as concerning those things to which both are subject: for the eye cannot judge any otherwise of a man being dead than of a beast, which is dead: yet by the word of God and faith we easily know the diversity as in (Ecc_3:21).(:note) befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Again, I considered all labour, and every (note:)The more perfect that the work is, the more it is envied by the wicked.(:note) right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ [There is] no (note:)They never cease by all means to creep into favour, but when they do not obtain their greedy desires they think themselves abused, as others have been in times past, and so care no more for him.(:note) end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet (note:)He shows that it is the plague of God when the rich man does not have a liberal heart to use his riches.(:note) God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For (note:)Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.(:note) he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Better [is] the (note:)To be content with that which God has given is better than to follow the desires that can never be satisfied.(:note) sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of (note:)Which crackle for a while and profit nothing.(:note) thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his (note:)Meaning that cruel tyrants put the godly to death and let the wicked go free.(:note) righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and (note:)That is, others as wicked as they.(:note) gone from the They who feared God and worshipped him as he had appointed. place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the (note:)Who are punished as though they were wicked, as in (Ecc_7:17)(:note) work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ But if a man shall live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of (note:)That is, of affliction and trouble.(:note) darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove (note:)That is, anger and envy.(:note) sorrow from thy heart, and Meaning, carnal lusts to which youth is given. put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

geneva@Isaiah:3:23 @ The mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the (note:)In rehearsing all these things particularly he shows the lightness and vanity of such as cannot be content with comely apparel according to their degree.(:note) veils.

geneva@Isaiah:5:18 @ Woe to them that draw iniquity with (note:)Who use all allurements, opportunities and excuses to harden their conscience in sin.(:note) cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

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 Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain fruit of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things. falsehood have we hid ourselves:

geneva@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of (note:)To drive you to nothing: and thus God consumes the wicked by that means, by which he cleanses his.(:note) vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.

geneva@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the (note:)The spirit of God will discover the vanity in all that seems to have any excellency of themselves.(:note) breath of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

geneva@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before him [are] as (note:)He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man nor put their trust in any, save only in God.(:note) nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

geneva@Isaiah:44:9 @ They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and (note:)Whatever they bestow on their idols, to make them seem glorious.(:note) their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; That is, the idolaters seeing that their idols are blind, are witnesses of their own blindness, and feeling that they are not able to help them, must confess that they have no power. they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind (note:)Meaning, the Assyrians and others, whose help they looked for.(:note) shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

geneva@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the (note:)By which is meant all manner of injury.(:note) finger, and speaking vanity;

geneva@Isaiah:59:4 @ None calleth for justice, nor [any] (note:)All men wink at the injuries and oppressions and none go about to remedy them.(:note) pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and According to their wicked devices, they hurt their neighbours. bring forth iniquity.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone (note:)That is, fallen to vile idolatry.(:note) far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become Altogether given to vanity, and are become blind and insensible as the idols that they serve. vain?

geneva@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a (note:)Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledge of him, he shows that nothing more displeases God, nor brings man into greater errors and ignorance of God: and therefore he calls them the doctrine of vanity, the work of errors, (Jer_10:15). (Hab_2:18) calls them the teachers of lies: contrary to that wicked opinion, that they are the books of the lay people.(:note) doctrine of vanities.

geneva@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O LORD, my (note:)He wonders at the great mercy of God in this deliverance which will not only extend to the Jews but also to the Gentiles.(:note) strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited Our fathers were most vile idolaters therefore it comes only of God's mercy that he performs his promise and has not utterly cast us off. lies, vanity, and [things] in which [there is] no profit.

geneva@Jeremiah:18:15 @ Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the (note:)That is, the way of truth which God had taught by his law, (Jer_6:16).(:note) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

geneva@Jeremiah:51:18 @ They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their (note:)When God will execute his vengeance.(:note) judgment they shall perish.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:9 @ And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the (note:)That is in the book of life, in which the true Israelites are written.(:note) writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:21:29 @ While they see (note:)Though the Jews and Ammonites would not believe that you, that is the sword, would come upon them, and said that the prophets who threatened spoke lies, yet you will as surely come as though you were already on their necks.(:note) vanity to thee, while they divine a lie to thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

geneva@Ezekiel:22:28 @ And her (note:)They who would have reproved them, flattered them in their vices and covered their doings with lies. {{See Eze_13:10}}(:note) prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

geneva@Hosea:8:7 @ For they have (note:)Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.(:note) sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

geneva@Hosea:12:11 @ [Is there] (note:)The people thought that no man dare have spoken against Gilead, that holy place, and yet the Prophet says that all their religion was but vanity.(:note) iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

geneva@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the (note:)He calls to remembrance God's punishments in times past, because they trusted not in him, but in their idols and sorcerers who always deceived them.(:note) idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore That is, the Jews went into captivity. they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

geneva@Romans:8:20 @ For the creature was made subject to (note:)Is subject to a vanishing and disappearing state.(:note) vanity, not Not by their natural inclination. willingly, but by reason That they should obey the Creator's commandment, whom it pleased to show by their sickly state, how greatly he was displeased with man. of him who hath subjected [the same] in God would not make the world subject to be cursed forever because of the sin of man, but gave it hope that it would be restored. hope,

geneva@1Corinthians:2:3 @ And I was with you in (note:)He contrasts weakness with excellency of words, and therefore joins with it fear and trembling, which are companions of true modesty, not such fear and trembling as terrify the conscience, but such as are contrary to vanity and pride.(:note) weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

geneva@1Corinthians:8:1 @ Now (note:)He begins to entreat of another type of indifferent things, that is, things offered to idols, or the use of flesh so offered and sacrificed. And first of all he removes all those things which the Corinthians pretended in using things offered to idols without any respect. First of all they affirmed that this difference of foods was for the unskilful men, but as for them, they knew well enough the benefit of Christ, which causes all these things to be clean to those that are clean. Be it so, Paul says: even if we are all sufficiently instructed in the knowledge of Christ, I say nonetheless that we must not simply rest in this knowledge. The reason is, that unless our knowledge is tempered with charity, it does not only not avail, but also does much hurt, because it is the mistress of pride. Nay, it does not so much as deserve the name of godly knowledge, if it is separate from the love of God, and therefore from the love of our neighbour.(:note) as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we This general word is to be abridged as (1Co_8:7) appears, for there is a type of taunt in it, as we may perceive by (1Co_8:2). all have knowledge. Knowledge Gives occasion of vanity and pride, because it is void of charity. puffeth up, but charity Instructs our neighbour. edifieth.

geneva@1Peter:5:6 @ Humble yourselves therefore (note:)Because those proud and lofty spirits threaten the modest and humble, the apostle warns us to set the power of God against the vanity of proud men, and to rely completely on his providence.(:note) under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

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.

geneva@Revelation:16:13 @ And I saw (note:)That is, every one of them focus their whole force, and conspired that by wonders, word and work they might bring into the same destruction all kings, princes and potentates of the world, cursedly bewitched by them by their spirits, and teachers of the vanity and impunity of the beast that committed fornication with the kings of the earth. This is a good description of our times.(:note) three unclean spirits Croaking with all importunity and continually day and night provoking and calling forth to arms, as the trumpets and furies of wars, as is declared in (Rev_16:14). like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the That is, the devil; (Rev_12:3) dragon, and out of the mouth of the See (Rev_13:1). beast, and out of the mouth of the That is, of that other beast; (Rev_13:11), for so he is called also in (Rev_19:20, Rev_20:10). false prophet.