Works

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

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

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

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? — read the full passage →

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

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

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

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

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

And let the favor 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 to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? — read the full passage →

in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity,

that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints’ feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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

And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? — read the full passage →

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

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 the things which I command you.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

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

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because 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 observances thereof.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a 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 have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

and by him every one that believeth is 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:

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.

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

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

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

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 us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

In like manner also there are good works that are evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.

for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? — read the full passage →

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

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath 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 upon 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 who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not 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 the life which is life indeed.

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

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

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what 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 found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

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 thy hand to do it.

For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

Now even the firstcovenanthad ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. — read the full passage →

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again? — read the full passage →

For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

each man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each 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 works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit 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.

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

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: — 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 wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back. — read the full passage →

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

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

So then, my beloved, even 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 was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through 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 then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

And as he thus made his defence, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning is turning thee mad.

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

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

But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the field, Come straightway and sit down to meat; — read the full passage →