25 Bible Verses about Works Of Faith

My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?

So faith, unless it has deeds, is dead in itself.

For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

But will you understand, you senseless fellow, that faith without deeds is dead?

Someone will object, 'And you claim to have faith!' Yes, and I claim to have deeds as well; you show me your faith without any deeds, and I will show you by my deeds what faith is!

In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds,

When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?

So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?

We used to charge you even when we were with you, 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'

I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.

In view of this we always pray for you, asking our God to make you worthy of his calling and by his power to fulfil every good resolve and every effort of faith,

You observe it is by what he does that a man is justified, not simply by what he believes.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

Our people must really learn to profess honest occupations, so as to be able to meet such special occasions; they must not be idle.

Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery, but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father,