13 Bible Verses about Justified By Works

Our ancestor Abraham was justified by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar, wasn't he?

Likewise, Rahab the prostitute was justified through actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away on a different road, wasn't she?

You observe that a person is justified through actions and not through faith alone.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Absolved from every act of sin, is wisdom by her kith and kin."

For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.

They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."

So is the Law in conflict with the promises of God? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could give us life, then certainly righteousness would come through the Law.

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the actions prescribed by the Law.

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

For if Abraham was justified by actions, he would have had something to boast about though not before God.