Quotes about Works
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
- John 14:12
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
- John 15:24
In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.
- Acts 9:36
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- Romans 2:13
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Romans 3:20
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
- Romans 3:27
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
- Romans 3:28
If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
- Romans 4:2
However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
- Romans 4:5
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
- Romans 4:6
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
- Romans 9:31
Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
- Romans 9:32