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.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father
Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hear
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take
If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One s
It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we
I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, bu