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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Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;…
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What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and…
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Romans 8:3 NT
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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Romans 9:16 NT
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
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Romans 9:31 NT
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
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Romans 9:32 NT
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
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Romans 11:6 NT
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.
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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove…
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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…
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For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
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I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
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Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by…
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But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? You observe days, months, seasons, and…
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Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
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You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
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But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
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for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
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not of works, that no one would boast.
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For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the…
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If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch” (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and…
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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 to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
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Titus 3:4 NT
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,