12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead rise not, then Christ hath not risen; and if Christ hath not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins;

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is idle?

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles; but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."

If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this mans religion is vain.

For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and endeavoring to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the same word which I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.

but avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the Law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Beware lest there be some one who shall make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ.

For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

For there are many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision;