Bible Cross References
vain things
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked Me to jealousy by [that which is] not God, they have exasperated Me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are not a nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in Me, that they have revolted far from Me, and gone after vanities, and have become vain?
Jeremiah 2:13
For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
Jeremiah 10:8
[This translation omits this verse.]
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 14:22
Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? And will the sky yield His fullness [at their bidding]? Are not You He? We will even wait on You, O Lord, for You have made all these things.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, You are my strength and my help, and my refuge in days of evil. To You the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, How worthless [were the] idols [which] our fathers procured for themselves, and there is no help in them.
Jonah 2:8
[ 2:9] Those that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
cannot profit
Psalm 115:4-8
4
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.
5
They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see;
6
they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;
7
they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot speak through their throat.
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Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them.
Isaiah 41:23
tell us, declare to us the things that are coming on at the last [time], and we shall know that you are gods; do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time
Isaiah 41:24
where you are, and where your works are; they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.
Isaiah 44:9
But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
Isaiah 44:10
that form a god, and all that engrave worthless things;
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, you that escape from the nations. They that set up wood, [even] their graven image, have no knowledge, nor do they who pray to gods that do not save.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.