20 Bible Verses about Works Of The Law

Moses said that anyone who carried out the uprightness the Law prescribed would find life through it.

and the Law has nothing to do with faith; it teaches that it is the man who does these things that will find life by doing them.

For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

Jesus said to him, "You are right. Do that, and you will live."

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.

but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness.

So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them, she was told, "The elder will be the younger's slave."

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.