James 2:21

Faith And Works

²⁰ Wilt thou understand, o thou vain man, that faith without deeds is dead? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified through works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² Thou seest how that faith wrought within his deeds, and through the deeds was the faith made perfect.

Good Deeds

Justified by Works

Offered Up Isaac

With God

O God

Abraham

Isaac

Genesis 22:16-18

saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,

Genesis 22:9-12

And when they came unto the place which God showed him, Abraham made an altar there and dressed the wood, and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, above upon the wood.

Joshua 24:3

But I took your father Abraham from the other side of the water, and brought him into the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Isaiah 51:2

Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you: how I called him only, and blessed him and multiplied him.

Matthew 3:9

And see that you think not to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father': for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Matthew 12:37

For by thy words thou shalt be justified: and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

Matthew 25:31-40

"When the son of man shall cometh in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his glory

Luke 1:73

And to perform the oath, which he sware to our father Abraham, for to give us.

Luke 16:24

And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.'

Luke 16:30

And he said, 'Nay, father Abraham, but if one came unto them from the dead they would repent.'

John 8:39

They answered, and said unto him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said unto them, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the deeds of Abraham.

John 8:53

Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? And the prophets are dead: Whom makest thou thyself?"

Acts 7:2

And he said, "Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hearken to. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham while he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

Romans 3:20

because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:1

What shall we say, then, that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, did find?

Romans 4:12

And that he might be the father of the circumcised: not because they are circumcised only: but because they walk also in the steps of that faith, that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision.

Romans 4:16

Therefore by faith is the inheritance given, that it might come of favour: and that the promise might be sure to all the seed. Not to them only which are of the law: but also to them which are of the faith of Abraham, which is the father of us all.

James 2:18

Yea, and a man might say, "Thou hast faith, and I have deeds: Show me thy faith by thy deeds: and I will show thee my faith by my deeds."

James 2:24

Ye see, then, how that of deeds a man is justified, and not of faith only.