25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Therefore you shall keep my rights and my statutes, of which the man doing them, shall live in them. I am the LORD.

and didst protest unto them, that they return unto thy law; yet they dealt proudly and did not hearken unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments (which if a man shall do, in them he shall live) and withdrew the shoulder and hardened their neck and would not hear.

and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted; therefore I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness to consume them.

Notwithstanding, the sons rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor keep my rights to do them, by which the man that does them shall live by them; they polluted my Sabbaths; then I said: I would pour out my fury upon them to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

For Moses describes the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

And the law is not of faith, but The man that does the commandments shall live by them.

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

Why? Because they followed it not by faith but, as it were, by the works (of the law); therefore, they stumbled on the stumblingstone;

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

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has reason to glory in himself, but not before God.

For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, Not of works, lest any man should boast.

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of 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 given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages,

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.

Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God doth attribute righteousness without works,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning of the establishment of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,

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

This only would I learn of you, Did ye receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the obedient ear of faith?

And if by grace, then is it not by works; otherwise, the grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, then it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.