12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead rise not, neither has Christ arisen; and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, you are still in your sins.

But do you want to be convinced, O foolish man, that faith apart from deeds is barren?

(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

In vain do they worship me, While they teach doctrines that are the commands of men."

If a man thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own religion,

For because they were ignorant of God's righteousness, and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself.

For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped;