25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory.

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth 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 every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.