12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

But are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless?

I went up because of a revelation; and I set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who were of reputation, for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain.

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, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

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 quarrels about the Law, for they are unprofitable and useless.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to human tradition, 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.