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Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

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Genesis 25:32
Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”

Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Romans 2:25
For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Romans 2:27
Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Romans 2:29
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Romans 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

1 Corinthians 15:32
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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Genesis 37:4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

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Genesis 37:11
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

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Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.

Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 6:3
Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

1 Corinthians 6:4
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

1 Corinthians 15:19
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Ecclesiastes 12:12
Furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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Psalms 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Ecclesiastes 3:9
What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:22
Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Luke 10:40
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

Luke 10:42
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what does a man have of all his labor and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

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Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

Matthew 6:27
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

Matthew 6:28
Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Matthew 6:29
yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

Matthew 6:30
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Matthew 6:31
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:34
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Luke 12:29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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