17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks to be religious among you, yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

Who is even among you who will shut the doors, and you not kindle fire on My altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Jehovah of Hosts. I will not be pleased with an offering from you.

You have said, It is vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?

by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

My brothers, what profit is it if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?

Even so, if it does not have works, faith is dead, being by itself.

But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

A Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless.

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

And if Christ is not raised, your faith is foolish; you are yet in your sins.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

However, they worship Me in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

But working together, we also call on you not to receive the grace of God in vain.