20 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

and the law has nothing to do with faith, but it says, "It is the man who does these things that will live by doing them."

For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright.

Why? Because they did not try through faith but through what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble,

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

For if he was considered in right standing with God on the condition of what he did, he has something to boast of, but not before God.

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God. It is not the result of what anyone can do, so that no one can boast of it.

He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

For we hold that a man is brought into right standing with God by faith, that observance of the law has no connection with it.

but the man who does no work, but simply puts his faith in Him who brings the ungodly into right standing with Himself, has his faith credited to him as right standing.

So David, too, describes the happiness of the man to whom God credits right standing with Himself, without the things he does having anything to do with it:

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

For whoever is admitted into God's rest himself has rested from his works, just as God did.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them, she was told, "The elder will be a slave to the younger."

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

But if it is by His unmerited favor, it is not at all conditioned on what they have done. If that were so, His favor would not be favor at all.