17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion
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If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
"I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you," says the Lord who rules over all, "and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?
and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them -- yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?
But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.
I do not set aside God's grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
I concluded, "Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
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