Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?


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Acts 4 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Job 27 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Ecclesiastes 12 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
Ecclesiastes 1 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Psalms 39 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
2 Peter 2 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Romans 1 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Obadiah 1 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
Psalms 94 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Habakkuk 1 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Job 35 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Ecclesiastes 8 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Job 22 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Matthew 23 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Zechariah 10 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Romans 8 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Psalms 39 6 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.
Ecclesiastes 2 26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
1 Corinthians 3 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Revelation 3 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Psalms 123 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Ezekiel 23 30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Proverbs 16 18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Isaiah 41 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Psalms 139 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
2 Peter 2 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Psalms 9 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
1 Samuel 12 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Zechariah 1 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Deuteronomy 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.
Proverbs 21 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Jeremiah 49 15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Isaiah 26 11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Proverbs 27 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Jude 1 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Psalms 59 8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Job 5 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Ephesians 5 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ezekiel 36 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Job 8 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
2 Chronicles 34 27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
Proverbs 28 25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Job 16 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Romans 8 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Romans 16 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Job 19 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Ezekiel 21 29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
Ezekiel 43 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Jeremiah 13 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.