by which also you are being kept safe, if you hold fast that Word which I preached to you; unless you believe in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Then I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My just due is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.

He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from off the face of the ground.

And in vain they revere Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

because He has established a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has appointed. He has given assurance of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.

And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but beguiles his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

But are you willing to understand, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?