25 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

And testified against them, that you might bring them again unto your law: yet they acted presumptuously, and hearkened not unto your commandments, but sinned against your judgments, (which if a man does, he shall live in them;) and turned the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live by them.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Yet the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even 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 of 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 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.

Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

And he said unto him, You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something in which to boast; but not before God.

For by grace are you 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 world began,

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh 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 works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes 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 the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto maturity; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward 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, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.