13 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious worship is worthless.

and through which you are to be saved, unless your faith at first was spurious.

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

My brothers, what good is there in a man's saying that he has faith, if he has no good deeds to prove it? Such faith cannot save him, can it?

So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead.

But, O senseless man, are you willing to learn that faith without good deeds is worthless?

and if Christ was not raised, the message which we preach has nothing in it; there is nothing in our faith either,

I never can nullify the unmerited favor of God. For if right standing with God could come through law, then Christ died for nothing.

and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is a mere delusion; you are still under the penalty of your sins.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power.

Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'"

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

As God's fellow-worker I beg you too not to accept God's favor and throw it away.