Legalism

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” — read the full passage →

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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.

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.” — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

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. — read the full passage →

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. — read the full passage →

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. — read the full passage →

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.’ — read the full passage →

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. — read the full passage →

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), — read the full passage →

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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. — read the full passage →

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. — read the full passage →

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.” — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest, — read the full passage →

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be 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 — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →