17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If any thinketh he is observant of religion, not curbing his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this one's, religious observance is, vain:

Who is there, even among you, that will shut the doors, so as not to set light to mine altar, for nothing? I can take no pleasure in you, saith Yahweh of hosts, and, your present, can I not accept at your hand.

Ye have said, Vain is it to serve God, - and, What profit when we have kept his charge, or when we have walked gloomily before Yahweh of hosts?

Through which also ye are being saved, - if ye hold fast, with what discourse, I announced the joyful message unto you; unless indeed, in vain, ye believed.

But, by favour of God, I am what I am, and, his favour, which was unto me, hath not been made void, - but, much more abundantly than they all, have I toiled, albeit not, I, but the favour of God with me.

What profit, my brethren, - if one should be saying he hath, faith, but hath not, works; can his faith save him?

So, also, faith, if it have not works, is dead, by itself.

But art thou willing to learn, O empty man! that, faith, apart from works, is, idle?

If, Yahweh, build not the house, in vain, have the builders of it toiled thereon, If, Yahweh, watch not the city, in vain, hath the watchman kept awake:

And, if Christ, hath not been raised, void, after all, is our proclamation, void also, our faith, -

I do not set aside the favour of God; for, if, through law, is righteousness, then, Christ, without cause, died.

And, if Christ hath not been raised, to no purpose, is your faith, yet, are ye in your sins!

For Christ sent me not, to be immersing, but to be telling the good news, - not with wisdom of discourse, lest, void should be made, the cross of the Christ.

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching, for teachings, the commandments of men.

But, in vain, do they pay devotions unto me, teaching for teachings, the commandments of men;

Altogether in vain, Have I cleansed my heart, And bathed in pureness, my hands;

As co-workers, however, we also beseech, that, not in vain, the favour of God, ye welcome;