Dictionary of Bible Themes All human life and human systems are ultimately useless without God, because death comes to all. God wants to deliver people from their futile ways. Psalms 89:47Human life is futile See also The brevity of life Job 7:6-7; 14:1-2Psalms 39:4-5 Ecclesiastes 6:12 Isaiah 40:6-7 James 4:14 Job 9:22 Ecclesiastes 3:19-20; 9:2 Death is the destiny of all Psalms 103:15-16Ecclesiastes 1:11; 2:16; 9:5 The dead are forgotten Ecclesiastes 1:14Human endeavour is futile See also Psalms 39:6; 127:2The writer speaks of human life without reference to God. Ecclesiastes 2:10-23Habakkuk 2:13 James 1:11 Psalms 94:11 Human thoughts are futile See also 1 Corinthians 3:19-20Romans 1:21 Ephesians 4:17-18 Isaiah 16:6 Human attitudes are futile See also Self-confidence is futile Jeremiah 48:29-30Luke 1:51-52 Jeremiah 17:5 See also Relying solely on human help is futile Psalms 60:11Psalms 146:3-4 Isaiah 2:22; 30:1-5; 31:1-3 pp Ps 108:12 Lamentations 4:172 Kings 17:15 False religion is futile See also Idolatry is futile 1 Samuel 12:21Psalms 31:6 Jeremiah 2:5; 10:8,14-15; 16:19 Jonah 2:8 Isaiah 8:19-22 Ezekiel 13:6-9 Divination is futile Zechariah 10:21 Kings 18:29 See also Human religious systems are futile Isaiah 16:12Jeremiah 10:5 Acts 5:36-38 Colossians 2:20-23 Isaiah 1:13 Nominal religion is futile See also Religious observance without true faith is futile Malachi 3:14Matthew 15:8-9 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 James 1:26 pp Mk 7:6-7 Titus 3:9See also Mere religious language is futile Jeremiah 7:8Lamentations 2:14 Ephesians 5:6 Colossians 2:18 1 Timothy 1:6 2 Timothy 2:14 2 Peter 2:18 John 15:5 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 Christian endeavour using only human strength is futile Hebrews 4:2See also Hearing God's word without responding to it is futile Matthew 7:26-27; 13:19-22James 1:22-24; 2:20 Jeremiah 13:10 Sin is futile because it achieves nothing See also Psalms 2:1; 112:10; 119:118Proverbs 10:28; 11:7 Jeremiah 51:58 Ephesians 5:11 Psalms 73:13 Faithfulness to God may seem to be futile See also Job 34:9Ecclesiastes 7:15; 8:14 Isaiah 49:4 1 Peter 1:18 God wants to deliver people from futile ways See also 2 Timothy 2:21See also 4015 life4030 world, behaviour in 4195 spirits 5067 suicide 5839 dissatisfaction 5846 enjoyment 6203 mortality 8032 trust, lack of 8748 false religion 8768 idolatry 8784 nominal religion 8820 self-confidence |
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