25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and did not listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection?not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.