12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and, if Christ hath not been raised, then is our preaching vain, and vain is your faith;

For, if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised; and, if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins!

But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless?

And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles; but privately to those of repute, 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 anyone thinks that he is religious, while he bridles not his own tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;

through which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you, unless ye believed in vain.

But shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strife, and contentions about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Beware, lest there should be any one who makes a spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceits, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ;

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

For there are many unruly men, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,