13 Bible Verses about Justified By Works
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When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?
So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?
You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.
the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."
For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,
they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)
And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, ??12 and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),
Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,
but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.
for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.
You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,
This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.
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