25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.

and testified unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. Notwithstanding, they were proud, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws, which a man should do and live in them, and turned the shoulder away, and were stiff-necked, and would not hear.

I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.

And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness.

Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.

Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

The law is not of faith: but the man that fulfilleth the things contained in the law, shall live in them.

For before God they are not righteous which hear the law: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

And wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith: but as it were, by the works of the law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

And he said unto him, "Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live."

If Abraham were justified by deeds, then hath he wherein to rejoice: but not with God.

For by grace are ye made safe through faith, and that, not of yourselves: For it is the gift of God, and cometh not of works, lest any man should boast himself.

not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

which saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds, but according to his own purpose and grace, which grace was given us through Christ Jesus before the world was,

because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

know that a man is not justified by the deeds of the law: but by the faith of Jesus Christ - and therefore we have believed on Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the deeds of the law: because that no flesh shall be justified by the deeds of the law.

We suppose, therefore we hold, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, is his faith counted for righteousness.

Even as David describeth the blessedfulness of the man, unto whom God ascribeth righteousness without deeds,

For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."

For he that is entered into his rest doth cease from his own works, as God did from his.

Wherefore, let us leave the doctrine pertaining to the beginning of a Christian man, and let us go unto perfection, and now no more lay the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad - that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand - it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller, "The elder shall serve the younger."

This only would I learn of you: Received ye the spirit by the deeds of the law? Or else by preaching of the faith?

If it be of grace, then is it not of works. For then were grace no more grace. If it be by the deserving of works, then is it no more grace. For then were deserving no longer deserving.