17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.

"Who also among you will shut [the temple] doors [so that] you will not kindle fire in vain [on] my altar? I take no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and {I will not accept} an offering from your hand.

You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?

Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.

But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching [is] in vain, and your faith [is] in vain.

I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness [is] through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

But if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] empty; you are still in your sins.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with {clever speech}, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.

Now [because we] are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.