16 Bible Verses about Futile Faith

and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.

For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles—but privately to those recognized as leaders—so that I might not be running, or have run the race, in vain.

They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose.

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.

They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!

say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,
yet in their time of disaster they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”
But where are your gods you made for yourself?
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
They have mouths but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears but cannot hear,
noses, but cannot smell.
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They have hands but cannot feel,
feet, but cannot walk.
They cannot make a sound with their throats.
Those who make them are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.

Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based on Christ.

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.