16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not raised either; and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.

But, O vain man, dost thou desire to know that faith without works is dead?

But I went up by revelation and communicated unto them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who seemed to be of repute, to not run, or have run, in vain.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

by which also ye are being saved if ye retain the word that I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and debates concerning the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

Of what profit is the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work?

They shall be turned back; they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

saying to a piece of firewood, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they say, Arise and deliver us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble, for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they shall never speak; they have eyes, but they shall never see: They have ears, but they shall never hear; they have noses, but they shall never smell;read more.
they have hands, but they shall never touch; they have feet, but they shall never walk; they shall never speak through their throat. Let those that make them become like unto them, and every one that trusts in them.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, according to the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers of souls, especially those of the circumcision,