10 Bible Verses about Nominal Religion

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which appear fair without, but within are full of the bones of the dead and of all impurity. So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophecy of you, saying; This people honors me with the lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching teachings and commandments of men.

And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophecy of you, hypocrites, as it is written; This people honors me with the lips, but their heart is far from me; but in vain do they worship me, teaching for teachings the commandments of men;

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles? So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits;read more.
a good tree cannot bear bad fruits, nor a bad tree good fruits. Every tree which bears not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. By their fruits, therefore, you shall know them. Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name performed many mighty works? and then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness.

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,read more.
which some having missed turned aside to vain words, desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.

He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

But if you had known what, I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice, means, you would not have condemned the innocent;

AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,read more.
traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid.