10 Bible Verses about Justification Is Not By Works

knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by faith and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

We conclude then that a man is justified by faith without the works of the law.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

And it is evident that no one is justified by the law before God, because the just shall live by faith,

But to one that works the reward is not accounted by grace but by debt. But to one that works not, but believes on him that justifies the wicked, his faith is [accounted] for righteousness. As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,read more.
Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not account sin.

but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness.

I SAY then, has God cast away his people? By no means; for I also am an Israelite, of the race of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know you not what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he intercedes with God against Israel? Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life.read more.
But what says the response to him? I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. So then also at the present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace; but if by grace, no longer by works; for otherwise grace is no longer grace; but if by works, it is no longer grace; for otherwise a work is no longer a work.

For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God; not of works, that no one may boast;

but when the goodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,