25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord.

And admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law.
Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances,
By which if a man observes them he shall live.
And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.

But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “He who practices them shall live by them.”

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”

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

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”

This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.