13 Bible Verses about Justified By Works

Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works [when she] welcomed the messengers and sent [them] out by a different route?

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a man [who is] a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."

For it is not the hearers of the law [who are] righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts [one] after another accusing or even defending them

Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may 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 we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

You are estranged from Christ, [you] who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.