12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and if Christ did not rise, then our preaching has gone for nothing, and your faith has gone for nothing too.

For if dead men never rise, Christ did not rise either; and if Christ did not rise, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins.

But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

(It was in consequence of a revelation that I went up at all.) I submitted the gospel I am in the habit of preaching to the Gentiles, submitting it privately to the authorities, to make sure that my course of action would be and had been sound.

vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts."

Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

the gospel by which you are saved ??provided you adhere to my statement of it ??unless indeed your faith was all haphazard.

But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;

For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;