Vanity: Evil People: Regard God's Service As

Nave's Topical Index

Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Nave's Topical Index

Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Nave's Topical Index

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Vanity of Human Glory.
... by a vast populace, or by various people, of whom ... the most dangerous, perhaps, of
all kinds of vanity is to ... and say all manner of evil against them falsely for ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xii vanity of human.htm

I am first to give you some directions for bringing your people to ...
... (5) It may be reasonably expected that people should thrive in ... what a profitable
improvement it will be of their time, and how much vanity and evil it will ...
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Solomon's Repentance
... in his later years "taught the people knowledge; yea ... from thy heart, and put away
evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity." Ecclesiastes 11:7 ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 5 solomons repentance.htm

The General Service to a Monk-Martyr.
... What have the ungrateful people rendered unto Thee for all ... mere invocation are driven
away the evil spirits that ... distressed in the darkness of vanity whom thou ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xviii the general service.htm

part ii
... positive decrees concerning the blame for evil deeds; and a ... should have time to spare
for idleness and vanity. ... we must take account of our people's learning, if ...
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Of Boasting.
... company; the very dreams of such people strait commence ... heavy Nurse, overlays the
Child, the vanity of that ... common notions of Humanity, and call evil good, and ...
/.../allestree/the government of the tongue/section ix of boasting.htm

The Hope of the Universe.
... This aching is what most people regard as evil: it is the unpleasant cure of evil. ...
all is vanity!' and beyond the abyss begin to espy the eternal world of ...
/.../macdonald/hope of the gospel/the hope of the universe.htm

Against Rash and Vain Swearing.
... man to suspect all his discourse of vanity and unadvisedness ... much more befitting
the scum of the people than the ... is more than these cometh of evil." The roots ...
/.../sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/against rash and vain swearing.htm

God's Restraining Power.
... Vanity still stirs up rivalry in connection with men's different ... not with good, but
with counter-evil, and, in ... which the Lord left to His people; and there ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xii gods restraining power.htm

Letter xix (AD 1127) to Suger, Abbot of S. Denis
... weights, so that they deceive even more than vanity (Psalm 62 ... of noble rank marries
a man of the people, she indeed ... from the King, it would be an evil only in ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/letter xix a d 1127 to.htm

Subtopics

Vanity

Vanity: A Consequence of the Fall

Vanity: All Earthly Things Are

Vanity: All should Know and Acknowledge

Vanity: Alms Giving Without Charity Is

Vanity: Almsgiving Without Love Is

Vanity: Avoid

Vanity: Avoid Those Given To

Vanity: Childhood and Youth Are

Vanity: Every Man Has

Vanity: Every Man Is