17 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man'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 Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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

I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

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

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,