16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

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

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.

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

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

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

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

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!

They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal 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 say, 'Arise and save us!' But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.read more.
They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

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

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.