12 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

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

For if the dead are never raised, Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is a mere delusion; you are still under the penalty of your sins.

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

I went up under the guidance of a divine revelation. Now I laid before them the good news that I was in the habit of preaching among the heathen, but first I did so privately before the leaders, for fear that my course might be or might have been to no purpose.

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

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

For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

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

But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the law, for these are fruitless and futile.

Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.

For if anybody thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he deceives himself.

For there are many insubordinate people, mere talkers with nothing to say, but deceivers of their own minds, especially those of the circumcision party,