25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Obey them and you will live. I am Jehovah.

You admonished them so that you might make them come back again to your law. Their hearts were lifted up, and they paid no attention to your orders. They went against your life giving decisions and turned their backs on you. They were stubborn and did not listen.

I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.

But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws. They rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.

But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes. They were not careful to obey my ordinances. If a man obeys them, he will live. They profaned my Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.

The Law is not based on faith. He that does them will live by them.

The hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be righteous.

Why? It is because it was not based on the principle of faith, but on that of works. They have stumbled at the stumbling stone.

He told him: You answered correctly, do this and you will live.

If Abraham was declared righteous by works, he could boast, but not to God.

By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God! It is not the result of works. So no man should boast.

not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit.

God has saved us and called us with a holy calling. This is not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace that was granted us in Christ Jesus, from all eternity.

No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.

Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.

We reason therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

He who does not work but believes in him who justifies (absolves) the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

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

Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.

He who enters into his rest also rests from his own works, just as God did from his.

Therefore leaving the elementary truths of the doctrine of Christ let us move on to maturity. Let us not lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.

When they had not yet been born nor performed anything good or vile, so the purpose of God regarding the choosing would continue without dependence on works but on the One who calls. She was told: The older will serve the younger.

I want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law, or by having faith in what you heard?

If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.