12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.

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

And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.

But in vain, do they worship me, teaching precepts, the commandments of men.

If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

For being ignorant of God's plan of justification, and seeking to establish their own plan of justification, they have not submitted to God's plan of justification.

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

But foolish questions and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not ac cording to Christ:

For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,