16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.

For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins.

But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

And I went up according to revelation, and I declared to them the good-news that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of repute, lest somehow I might be running or ran in vain.

And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods.

who say to a block of wood, Thou are my father, and to a stone, Thou have brought me forth. For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. But where are thy gods that thou have made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble. For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not. They have noses, but they smell not.read more.
They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat. Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

Take heed lest there will be any man taking you captive through the love of wisdom and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision,