17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

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

In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.

I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

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

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.

Did I purify my heart
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

Working together with Him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive God’s grace in vain.”