Works
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Works’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Titus 3:2 NT
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
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Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
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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.
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But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 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; for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately…
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James 3:13 NT
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
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James 3:17 NT
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.
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James 3:18 NT
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
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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.”
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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.
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Psalms 49:7 OT
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
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Psalms 49:8 OT
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
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Psalms 127:1 OT
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
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Psalms 127:2 OT
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.
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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Isaiah 43:26 OT
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
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Isaiah 57:12 OT
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
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Isaiah 64:6 OT
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.
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Ezekiel 7:19 OT
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because…
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“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his…
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Daniel 9:18 OT
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.
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Matthew 5:20 NT
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.
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Luke 17:7-10 NT
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,’ and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly,…
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Luke 18:9-14 NT
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee stood…
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Acts 13:39 NT
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.