Works

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? — read the full passage →

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? — read the full passage →

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. — read the full passage →

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? — read the full passage →

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? — read the full passage →

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? — read the full passage →

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. — read the full passage →

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. — read the full passage →

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, — read the full passage →

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? — read the full passage →

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. — read the full passage →

Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. — read the full passage →

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: — read the full passage →

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, — read the full passage →

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? — read the full passage →

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? — read the full passage →