1 Samuel 12:21

12:21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.

Malachi 3:14

3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Matthew 6:7

6:7 When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Matthew 15:9

15:9 and they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 15:1

Breaking Human Traditions

15:1 Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

Colossians 1:14

1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Titus 3:9

3:9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

James 1:26

1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

James 2:20

2:20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?