Bible Dictionary: Vanity: Worldly Wisdom Is

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Ecclesiastes 2:15,21
Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
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1 Corinthians 3:20
And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
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Library

Vanity of Human Glory.
... though a bad man, at least acted wisely, ie according to a worldly wisdom; but those ...
of glory; but all persons may be tempted to indulge in vanity, which is ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xii vanity of human.htm

Now that which we are Here Taught, is the Whole End of all ...
... of self, of earthly wisdom, of diabolical falseness, wrath, pride, and vanity of
every ... so far he falls under the power of self, of satan, and worldly wisdom. ...
/.../address 41 0 0 now that which.htm

That God's Lover Forsakes the World, Idleness and Irksomeness: and ...
... all this world is but vanity, that, as they say, they can scarcely last for feebleness.
Deceitful also are they, because they have worldly wisdom; and they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter x that gods lover.htm

On the Festival of the Nativity, viii.
... catholic Faith then, dearly beloved, may scorn the errors of the heretics that bark
against it, who, deceived by the vanity of worldly wisdom, have forsaken ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xxviii on the festival.htm

Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon.
... He had the best that could be gotten, from human wisdom, from wealth, from worldly
pleasure, from worldly honor, only to find that all was "vanity and vexation ...
/.../chapter xiv ecclesiastes and the.htm

On Books
... Then men would no longer call the vile person beautiful, or call pride and vanity
honour, or covetousness respectability, or call sin worldly wisdom; but they ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon xxiv on books.htm

His Character.
... With a little more worldly wisdom and less ascetic severity he might perhaps have
conciliated ... of the preacher and the reformer and the ambition and vanity of a ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/chapter xi his character.htm

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Lichfield.
... Beneath death's gloomy, silent, cypress shades,. Unpierced by vanity's fantastic
ray; To ... sight; Pale worldly wisdom loses all her charms; ...
/.../young/youngs night thoughts/to the right honourable the.htm

Of the Judgment and Punishment of the Wicked
... Then simple obedience shall be more highly exalted than all worldly wisdom. ... All
therefore is vanity, save to love God and to serve Him only. ...
/.../kempis/imitation of christ/chapter xxiv of the judgment.htm

The First Epistle to the Corinthians
... Worldly wisdom and great moral degradation went hand in hand ... Farrar says: "Corinth
was the Vanity Fair of the Roman Empire, at once the London and the Paris of ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/the first epistle to the.htm