13 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account.

and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?

So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead.

But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?

and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either,

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "

But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.'

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.