17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain is the religion;

Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.

Ye have said, 'A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

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

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but -- to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.'

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men;

Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --