17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?

Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.

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

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain