19 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.

and the Law has nothing to do with faith, but declares, The man that has done these things shall live therein.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

"You have answered right," said Jesus "do that and you shall live."

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to be proud of, but not before God.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift. It is not of works, so that any one can boast of it;

He saved us, not because of any deeds that we had done in righteousness, But because of his own pity for us. He saved us by that washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith 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."

For I conclude that a man is justified by faith, altogether apart from the deeds of the Law.

but a man who does not "work," but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith imputed to him for righteousness.

Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works,

and even though they were still unborn, and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election, not of works, but of Him who called, it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.