16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised. And if Christ is not raised, your faith is foolish; you are yet in your sins.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

And I went up by revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to those seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.

by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You are our gods.

saying 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 will say, Arise and save us! But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell;read more.
they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,