16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is also without value.

For if the dead are not raised up then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins.

Are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless (barren) (lifeless)?

I went in response to a revelation. I demonstrated to them the way I spread the good news among the people of the nations. I did this privately before them for they have a reputation. I am concerned that by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules (commands) of men.'

If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.

You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

What is an idol worth after the carver is done? It is merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made by human hands from wood or metal?

Those who trust in idols and call images their gods will be humiliated and disgraced.

You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you. Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? Let them come and rescue you when you have trouble. You have as many gods as you have cities, Judah!

Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them. They have mouths, but they cannot speak. They have eyes, but they cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot hear. They have noses, but they cannot smell.read more.
They have hands, but they cannot feel. They have feet, but they cannot walk. They cannot even make a sound with their throats. Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.

See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ.

So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself.

There are many unruly (rebellious) men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.