12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised; and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.

But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile.

Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself.

For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.