Bible Verses about โemptinessโ
The Bible contains 36 verses about emptiness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.โ
โJesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.โ
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โGive diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.โ
โ"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.โ
โEven though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.โ
โHe restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.โ
โYahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.โ
โHe makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.โ
โYou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.โ
โSurely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. A Psalm by David.โ
โTake my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.โ
โBut God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.โ
โFor the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;โ
โFor there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,โ
โand will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.โ
โpreach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.โ
โFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,โ
โnor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โBut he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.โ
โBut you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.โ
โI command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:โ
โThere is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.โ
โAll we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.โ
โSurely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.โ
โThe unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.'โ
โfor he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!โ
โDon't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,โ
โwhen your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.โ
โForty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."โ
โTherefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."โ
โHe believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.โ
โLet him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.โ
โIt shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.โ
