Thematic Bible: Works encouraged
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Good » Works encouraged » Insufficient to secure salvation
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.
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,
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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,
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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.
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Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?' And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'
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.
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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.
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But when the goodness and lovingkindness of God our Saviour were brought to light, 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,
Good » Works encouraged » Examples of
"I know what you have done; your hard work and patient endurance; that you cannot tolerate wicked persons; that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles although they were not, and have found them to be imposters,
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At Joppa there was a woman, a disciple, whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek means Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. She had filled her life with good deeds and works of charity, which she was always doing.
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For when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger you welcomed me to your homes, when I needed clothes you put them on me, when I was sick you looked after me, when I was in prison you came to see me.'
for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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a woman with an alabaster bottle of very costly perfume came up to Him while He was at table and poured it upon His head. When the disciples saw it, they were very indignant, and said, "Why such waste?
But Jesus, because He understood them, said to them, "Why do you embarrass the woman? She has done a good deed to me,
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Good » Works encouraged » Furnish a pattern for imitation
who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.
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It is a message to be trusted, and I want you to be emphatic about these things, so that those who believe in God may be careful to take the lead in doing good. These things are right and render service to mankind.
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In everything you yourself continue to set them a worthy example of doing good; be sincere and serious in your teaching,
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Good » Works encouraged » Glorify God
Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.
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so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord to His full satisfaction, by perennially bearing fruit in every good enterprise and by a steady growth in fuller knowledge of God;
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Good » Works encouraged » Demonstrate the reality of faith
Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.
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So faith by itself, if it has no deeds to back it up, is dead. But someone may say, "You have faith, and I have good deeds. Show me your faith without any good deeds, but I will show you mine by my good deeds."
Good » Works encouraged » Enriched life
charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,
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Good » Works encouraged » Tend to summons others to their tasks
Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
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