Bible verses about "works" | Goodspeed

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.

²¹ fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁷ In every way set them an example of good conduct yourself. Teach with sincerity and seriousness,

²² Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves. ²³ For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him, ²⁴ and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like. ²⁵ But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives himself, his religious observances are of no account. ²⁷ A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.

¹⁶ Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.

¹⁴ My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If some brother or sister has no clothes and has not food enough for a day, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, "Goodbye, keep warm and have plenty to eat," without giving them the necessaries of life, what good does it do? ¹⁷ So faith by itself, if it has no good deeds to show, is dead. ¹⁸ But someone may say, "You have faith, and I good deeds." Show me your faith without any good deeds, and I will show you my faith by my good deeds. ¹⁹ Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder. ²⁰ But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing?

⁸ This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

²⁰ But do you want proof, my senseless friend, that faith without good deeds amounts to nothing? ²¹ Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar? ²² You see that in his case faith and good deeds worked together; faith found its highest expression in good deeds, ²³ and so the Scripture came true that says, "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness, and he was called God's friend." ²⁴ You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.

¹⁴ Have our people learn to make it their business to do good, so as to meet these pressing demands and not live unfruitful lives.

⁸ For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. ⁹ It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it. ¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.