Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'vanities' occurs 14 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'vanities' in the standard works and contain 14.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 1:2 (2 in 1 verse)

 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 0 12
NT 1 0 1
BM 0 0 0
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 14 0 14

Deut. 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Kgs. 16:13
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kgs. 16:26
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Ps. 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

Eccl. 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Eccl. 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Eccl. 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

Jer. 8:19
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

Jer. 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Jer. 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Acts 14:15
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

D&C 20:5
After it was truly manifested unto this first elder that he had received a remission of his sins, he was entangled again in the vanities of the world;