17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion
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If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.
Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?
by which also ye are saved if ye hold firm that word I preached to you, unless ye believed in vain.
But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?
But do thou want to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.
And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty.
I do not disregard the grace of God, for if righteousness is through law, then Christ died in vain.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain. Ye are still in your sins.
For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to preach the good-news, not in wisdom of speech lest the cross of Christ would be emptied.
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