13 Bible Verses about Justified By Works
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Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
And in the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different route?
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.
They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.
Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.
know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
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