13 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

If a man thinks that he is scrupulously religious, although he is not curbing his tongue but is deceiving himself, his religious service is worthless.

through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.

But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?

So also faith, if it is unaccompanied by obedience, has no life in it--so long as it stands alone.

But, idle boaster, are you willing to be taught how it is that faith apart from obedience is worthless? Take the case of Abraham our forefather.

And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."

and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words--lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power.

but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'"

But idle is their devotion while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.