Romans 2:13
For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.
Deuteronomy 4:1
Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:1
Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: "Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Deuteronomy 6:3
Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number -- as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 30:12-14
It is not in heaven, as though one must say, "Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
Psalm 143:2
Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!
Ezekiel 33:30-33
"But as for you, son of man, your people (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, 'Come hear the word that comes from the Lord.'
Matthew 7:21-27
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven -- only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Luke 8:21
But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."
Luke 10:25-29
Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Luke 18:14
I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Acts 13:39
and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
Romans 2:25
For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 3:20
For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:30
Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Romans 4:2-5
For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."
Galatians 2:16
yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 3:11-12
Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.
Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
James 1:22-25
But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
James 2:21-25
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.