17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?

Even so faith without works is dead.

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.