20 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

Now the law is not of faith; but "He who did them shall live in them."

for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers 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 to him, "You answered right; do this, and you shall live."

For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God.

For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any one should boast;

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy, He saved us through a washing of regeneration and renewal 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 eternal ages,

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by works of 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 works of law; because by works of law no flesh shall be justified.

For we reckon that a man is justified by faith, apart from works of law.

but to him that works not, but believes on Him Who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,

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

For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

(for, the children being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him Who calleth), it was said to her, "The elder shall serve the younger."

This only do I wish to learn of you: Did ye receive the Spirit by works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

But, if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise the grace becomes no longer grace. [But, if of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise, the work is no longer work.]