Doing Works

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, <FI>is<Fi> abomination before God;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

because thou sayest--I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God-- — read the full passage →

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, — read the full passage →

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech; — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life--

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

and in like manner also Rahab the harlot--was she not out of works declared righteous, having received the messengers, and by another way having sent forth?

dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead?

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;

Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God, — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

And for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before God;

And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

saying, `Away! what--to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art--the Holy One of God.'

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.