12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

but if Christ is not risen, then indeed is our preaching vain, and your faith is vain.

But if the dead rise not, neither is Christ risen. But if Christ is not risen, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient?

but I went up according to revelation; and I presented to them the gospel which I am preaching among the Gentiles, but privately to the prominent ones, lest perhaps I am running, or did run, in vain.

But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.

for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

by which you are also saved; which word I preached to you, if you hold it fast, otherwise you believed in vain.

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ,

For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision,