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- Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
- Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
- Nehemiah 5:19
Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- Nehemiah 13:14
Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
- Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
- Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
- Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
- Psalms 49:8
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
- Psalms 90:17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
- Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
- Psalms 106:31
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
- Psalms 127:1
A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
- Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
- Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
- Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
- Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
- Jeremiah 22:15
“Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
- Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 7:19
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 14:14
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 14:20
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
- Ezekiel 18:5
“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
- Ezekiel 18:6
and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,
- Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 18:8
he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
- Ezekiel 18:9
has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 33:12
You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
- Ezekiel 33:13
When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
- Ezekiel 33:14
Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
- Ezekiel 33:15
if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 33:16
None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 33:17
Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
- Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
- Ezekiel 33:19
When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
- Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
- Matthew 3:8
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
- Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
- Matthew 6:2
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
- Matthew 6:3
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
- Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
- Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
- Matthew 18:5
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
- Matthew 19:16
Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
- Matthew 19:17
He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
- Matthew 19:18
He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
- Matthew 19:19
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
- Matthew 19:20
The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
- Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
- Matthew 20:11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
- Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
- Matthew 20:13
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?
- Matthew 20:14
Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
- Matthew 20:15
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
- Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
- Matthew 21:29
He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
- Matthew 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
- Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
- Matthew 25:14
“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
- Matthew 25:15
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Matthew 25:16
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- Matthew 25:17
In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
- Matthew 25:18
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
- Matthew 25:19
“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
- Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Matthew 25:22
“He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
- Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
- Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
- Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
- Matthew 25:28
Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
- Matthew 25:29
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
- Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
- Matthew 25:35
for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
- Matthew 25:36
I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
- Matthew 25:37
“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
- Matthew 25:38
When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
- Matthew 25:39
When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’
- Matthew 25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
- Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Matthew 25:42
for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
- Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
- Matthew 25:44
“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
- Matthew 25:45
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
- Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Mark 10:17
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
- Luke 10:25
Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
- Luke 13:6
He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
- Luke 13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’
- Luke 13:8
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.
- Luke 13:9
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”
- Luke 17:7
But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’
- Luke 17:8
and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?
- Luke 17:9
Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
- Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”
- Luke 18:9
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
- Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
- Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
- Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
- Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Luke 19:12
He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
- Luke 19:13
He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
- Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
- Luke 19:15
“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
- Luke 19:16
The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
- Luke 19:17
“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
- Luke 19:18
“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’
- Luke 19:19
“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
- Luke 19:20
Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
- Luke 19:21
for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’
- Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
- Luke 19:23
Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
- Luke 19:24
He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’
- Luke 19:25
“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
- Luke 19:26
‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
- Luke 19:27
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
- John 10:32
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
- John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
- John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
- John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
- John 15:6
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
- John 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
- John 15:8
“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
- John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
- Acts 10:38
even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Acts 13:39
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
- Romans 3:22
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
- Romans 3:23
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
- Romans 3:24
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
- Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
- Romans 3:26
to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
- Romans 3:27
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- Romans 3:28
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
- Romans 3:30
since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
- Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
- Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
- Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
- Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
- Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
- Romans 4:7
“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
- Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
- Romans 4:10
How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
- Romans 4:12
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Romans 4:14
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- Romans 4:15
For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Romans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:18
Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
- Romans 4:19
Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
- Romans 4:20
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
- Romans 4:21
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
- Romans 4:22
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
- Romans 8:3
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
- Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
- Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
- Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
- 1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 13:3
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
- 2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
- Galatians 2:16
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
- Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Galatians 2:21
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
- Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
- Galatians 3:2
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
- Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
- Galatians 3:5
He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:6
Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
- Galatians 3:7
Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
- Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
- Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
- Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
- Galatians 3:11
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
- Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
- Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
- Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
- Galatians 3:15
Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
- Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants ”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring ”, which is Christ.
- Galatians 3:17
Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
- Galatians 3:18
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
- Galatians 3:19
What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- Galatians 3:20
Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.
- Galatians 3:21
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
- Galatians 3:22
But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
- Galatians 3:24
So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Galatians 3:25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
- Galatians 3:26
For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 3:29
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
- Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
- Galatians 4:10
You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
- Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
- Galatians 5:2
Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
- Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
- Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
- Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
- Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
- Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- Philippians 3:4
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
- Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
- Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
- Philippians 3:7
However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
- Philippians 3:8
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
- Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
- Colossians 2:20
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
- Colossians 2:21
“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
- Colossians 2:22
(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
- Colossians 2:23
Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
- Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
- Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
- Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:7
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:8
For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
- 1 Timothy 2:10
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
- 1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
- 1 Timothy 5:10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
- 1 Timothy 5:25
In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.
- 1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
- 1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;
- 1 Timothy 6:19
laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
- 2 Timothy 1:9
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 to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
- 2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
- 2 Timothy 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
- 2 Timothy 3:17
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- Titus 2:7
in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
- Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Titus 3:1
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
- Titus 3:2
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
- Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
- Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
- Titus 3:14
Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
- Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:4
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
- Hebrews 4:5
and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
- Hebrews 4:6
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
- Hebrews 4:7
he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”
- Hebrews 4:8
For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Hebrews 4:9
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
- Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
- Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Hebrews 10:24
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
- Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
- James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
- James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
- James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
- James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
- James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
- James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
- James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
- James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
- James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
- James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- James 3:18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- 1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
- Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).