16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?

It was because of a revelation that I went up; and I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’”

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame,
Who trust in idols,
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to Me,
And not their face;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us.’
“But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can save you
In the time of your trouble;
For according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;
They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;
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They have hands, but they cannot feel;
They have feet, but they cannot walk;
They cannot make a sound with their throat.
Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,