Isaiah 57:12

57:12 I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds,

but they will not help you.

Jeremiah 7:8

7:8 “‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.

John 6:63

6:63 The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

John 6:1

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

6:1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).

John 4:8

4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

Hebrews 13:9

13:9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

James 2:14-17

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? 2:15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 2:16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? 2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.