17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

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

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

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORDwatches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.