12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised: and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

But desirest thou to know, O vain man, that faith without works, is dead?

But I went up according to a divine revelation, and laid before them the gospel which I preach among the gentiles: though privately to those of note, least I should run, or had run in vain.

but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.

If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

For being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness which is of God.

By which also ye are saved, if ye retain it as I preached it to you: unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

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

Take heed least any one make a prey of you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ:

For if any one thinketh that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

For there are many disorderly persons, vain-talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; whose mouths must be stopped: