13 Bible Verses about Useless Religion

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

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 by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

In just the same way faith, if it have not deeds, is by itself a lifeless thing.

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

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

I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, you are still in your sins.

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

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

But in vain do they worship me, For their teaching is only human precepts.'"

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.