vain, profane, foolish, and profitless

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Proverbs 19:1
moral, ethical, and spiritual precepts

Better is the poor that walketh in his in-
tegrity,
than he that is perverse in his lips, and is
a fool.

2 Timothy 2:4
a good soldier of Christ

No man that warreth entangleth himself with
the affairs of this life: that he may please him
who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2 Timothy 2:15,16
advice on personal conduct and relationships

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they
will increase unto more ungodliness.

Proverbs 6:12-114

A naughty person, a wicked man,
walketh with a froward mouth.
He winketh with his eyes,
he speaketh with his feet,
he teacheth with his fingers;
frowardness is in his heart,
he deviseth mischief continually;
he soweth discord.

Job 15:12

Why doth thine heart carry thee away?
And what do thy eyes wink at,
that thy turnest thou spirit away from God,
and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
What is man, that he should be clean?
and he which is born of a woman, that he
should be righteous?
Behold, he puttteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
How much more abominable and filthy is
man,
which drinketh iniquity like water?

Mark 7:6,7
Jesus explains what defiles

He answered and said unto them, Well
hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites,
as it is written,
This people honoreth me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me,
Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments
of men.

Isaiah 29:13-16
the blindness of Israel

Wherefore the Lord said, Foreasmuch
as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honor me,
but have removed their heart far from me,
and thier fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men:
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to
do a marvelous work among this people,
even a marvelous work and a wonder: for
the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the understanding of their prudent
men shall be hid.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide
their counsel from the Lord, and their
works are in the dark, and they say, Who
seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Surely your turning of things upside
down shall be esteemed as the potter's
day: for shall the work say of him that
made it. He made me not? or shall the
thing framed say of him that framed it?
He had no understanding?

Habakkuk 1:5
God's use of the Chaldeans

Behold ye among the heathen, and
regard, and wonder marveously: for I will
work a work in your days, which ye will
not believe, though it be told you.

1 Corinthians 1:19
Paul speaks against divisions

For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent.

vain: empty, useless, worthless

Proverbs 25:8
comparisons, warnings, and instructions

Go not forth hastily to strive,
lest thou know not what to do in the end
thereof,
when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

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the third commandment

Exodus: 20:7
the ten commandments

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Matthew 5:33
on oaths

Again, ye have heard that it hath been
said by them of old time, Thou shalt not
foreswerar thyself, but shalt perform unto
the Lord thine oaths,.
But I say unto you, Swear not all; neither
by heaven, for it is God's throne:
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool:
neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of
the great King.
Neither shalt thou swear by the head, be-
cause thou canst not make one hair white
or black.
But let your communication be Yea, yea;
Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these
cometh of evil.

Deuteronomy 23:23
laws of human relations

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt
keep and perform; even a free will offering,
according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord
thy God, which thou hast promised with thy
mouth.

Matthew 23:16
Jesus denounces the scribes and Pharisees

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say,
Whossoever shall swear by the temple, it is
nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the
gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greather,
the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the
gold?

James 5:12
patience in affliction

But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither
by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and
your nay be nay; least ye fall into condemnation.

Isaiah 66:1
Zion's future hope

Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and
the earth is my footstool: where is the house that
ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Colossians 4:6
personal greeting

Ley your speech be always with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer
every man.

Micah 6:11
the requirements of the Lord

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances,
and with the bag of deceitful weights?


vain:

Strongs Bible Dictionary

Greek

7723

from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating: evil (as destructive0, lit. (ruin) or mor. (espec. guile): fig. idolatry (as false sub) uselessness (as deceptive, ob); also adv in vain) - false (-ly) lie, lying, vain , vainity

7722

from an unused root mean. to rush over; a tempest; by impli. devestation - desolate (-ion), destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness

Father, may You keep us from the vain ... the foolish ... the profitless ... and the usless ways of the world ... help us to be fruitful ... walk in wisdom ... to be productive to your kingdom ... and to be useful here ... in Jesus precious name I ask ... Amen.

Proverbs 18:21
moral, ethical, and spiritual precepts

Death and life are in the power of the tongue:
and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ecclesiastes 11:9
advice to the young

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;
and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of
thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart,
and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou,
that for all these things God will bring thee into
judgement.