19 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

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,

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

"A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live."

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.

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

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.

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.

We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

(for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did).

Let us pass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary Christian doctrine behind, instead of laying the foundation over again with repentance from dead works, with faith in God,

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does), she was told that the elder will serve the younger.

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.