Vain
VAIN, a. [L. vanus; Eng. wan, wane, want.]
1. Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance. 1Peter 1.To your vain answer will you have recourse.Every man walketh in a vain show. Ps. 39.Why do the people imagine a vain thing? Ps. 2.2. Fruitless; ineffectual. All attempts, all efforts were vain.Vain is the force of man.3.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high
opinion of one's own accomplishments, or with things more showy than
valuable; conceited.The minstrels play'd on every side, vain of their art -4. Empty; unreal; as a vain chimers.5. Showy; ostentatious.Load some vain church with old theatric state.6. Light; inconstant; worthless. Prov. 12.7. Empty; unsatisfying. The pleasures of life are vain.8. False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious. James 1.9. Not effectual; having no efficacyBring no more vain oblations. Is. 1.In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectual.In vain they do worship me. Matt. 15.To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.
SCRIPTURES:
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain; surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
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.
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.
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.
O how foolish, and how vain,
and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow
to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the
words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world!
Imagining up some vain
thing in their hearts, that it was wrought by men and by the power of
the devil, to lead away and deceive the hearts of the people; and thus
did Satan get possession of the hearts of the people again, insomuch
that he did blind their eyes and...
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
For
this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith,
lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
Falsehood or deceit; pride. Vain and vanity can also mean empty or without value.
QUOTES:
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
PERSONAL DEFINITION:
I think that to be vain means to care a lot about what others think, and that it also means useless or empty. And things of the world are useless and empty, so I think it's important that we don't put out focus on those things, because it will all be in vain!
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