8 Bible Verses about Things Which Cannot Save

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

Then the cities of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem will cry to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. But these gods will never rescue them in a time of distress.

They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin.

Son of man, tell the Israelites that when someone good sins, the good he has done will not save him. If an evil person stops doing evil he will not be punished, and if a good man starts sinning, his life will not be spared.

Assyria will not save us and we will not ride on horses. We will not say again: Our god, to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.

Where, now, is your king, the one who is supposed to save you? Where in all your cities are your judges? You said: 'Give us kings and officials!'

There is no salvation in anyone else. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?