Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Bible References
For not
Romans 2:25
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.
Matthew 7:21
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 8:21
"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."
James 1:22
And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.
1 John 2:29
If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 3:7
My children, let no one deceive you; he who is working righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
But the
Romans 3:20
For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.
Luke 10:25
Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Galatians 3:11
And it is manifest that by the Law no man is justified in the sight of God. because The just shall live by faith,
Justified
Romans 3:30
since there is one God who will justify the circumcised through faith, and by their faith will he justify the uncircumcised.
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.
Luke 18:14
"I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself shall be humbled; but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
Acts 13:39
"and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified by the law of Moses.
Galatians 2:16
"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."
Galatians 5:4
If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar?