If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

Yea, what is he among you, that will do so much as to shut the doors, or to kindle the fire upon mine altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: and as for the meat offering, I will not accept it at your hand.

Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

What availeth it, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, when he hath no deeds? Can faith save him?

Even so faith, if it have no deeds, is dead in itself.

Wilt thou understand, o thou vain man, that faith without deeds is dead?

{A song of the stairs} Except the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also in vain.

I despise not the grace of God: For if righteousness come of the law, then is Christ died in vain.

If it be so that Christ rose not, then is your faith in vain, and yet are ye in your sins.

For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should have been made of none effect.

But in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but men's precepts.'"

In vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but the commandments of men,

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

We as helpers therefore exhort you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.