16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

But 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, Christ has not been raised [either]. But if Christ has not been raised, your faith [is] empty; you are still in your sins.

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.

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

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

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!

They shall turn back; they shall be {greatly ashamed}, those who trust in an image, who say to a cast image, "You [are] our gods."

[Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. 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 the time of your trouble. For [according to] the number of your towns are your gods, Judah.

Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;read more.
[they have] their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats. [Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

Beware lest {anyone take you captive} through 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 [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

For there are many rebellious [people], idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,