17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors or tend the fire on my altar for free? I have no pleasure in you, said the LORD of the hosts, neither will the offering from your hand be agreeable unto me.

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his law and that we walk mournfully before the LORD of the hosts?

by which also ye are being saved if ye retain the word that I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says that they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?

Even so faith, if it does not have works, is dead in and of itself.

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

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labour in vain that build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchmen watch in vain.

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

I do not reject the grace of God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

and if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; ye are even yet in your sins.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

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

Howbeit in vain do they honor me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Verily, in vain have I cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocency

We then, as workers together with him, exhort you also that ye have not received the grace of God in vain.