16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

And if Christ has not risen, then our proclaiming vain, and also your faith vain.

For if the dead are not raised, neither was Christ raised up: And if Christ was not raised up, your faith is vain; yet are ye in your sins.

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

And I went up according to revelation, and placed before them the good news which I proclaim in the nations, but apart to them highly esteemed, lest I run in vain, or ran.

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

If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain.

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

By which also ye are saved, to which word I announced to you if ye hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us. And where thy gods which thou didst make to thee? they will arise, if they shall save thee in the time of thine evil: for from the numbering of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. A mouth to them, and they shall not speak: eyes to them, and they will not see: Ears to them, and they shall not hear: a nose to them, and they shall not smell:read more.
Their hands, and they will not feel: their feet, and they shall not go: they shall not murmur in their throat They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

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

For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: