12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and if Christ has not been raised, then both our preaching is vain, and your faith also vain;

For if the dead are not raised, Christ was not raised; and if Christ was not raised, your faith is vain, you are yet in your sins,

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

and I went up by a revelation, and proposed to them the gospel which I preach to the gentiles, but privately to persons of distinction, lest I should run or had run in vain.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching teachings and commandments of men.

But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.

for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.

by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

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

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,