Galatians 3:5

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Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard?

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  • 1 Cor 1:4-5 : 4 Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. 5 For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–
  • Gal 3:2 : 2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
  • 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, but are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments
  • Acts 14:3 : 3 So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.
  • Acts 14:9-9 : 9 This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed, 10 he said with a loud voice,“Stand upright on your feet.” And the man leaped up and began walking.
  • Acts 19:11-12 : 11 The Seven Sons of Sceva God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands, 12 so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
  • 2 Cor 13:3 : 3 since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.
  • 2 Cor 12:12 : 12 Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.
  • 1 Cor 12:10 : 10 to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
  • 2 Cor 3:8 : 8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
  • Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

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  • Gal 3:2-4
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    2The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

    3Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort?

    4Have you suffered so many things for nothing?– if indeed it was for nothing.

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

    12But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

    28For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 5:4-6
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

    5For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

    6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.

  • Gal 3:14
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    14in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

  • Rom 4:4-5
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    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

    5But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

  • Rom 10:17
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    17Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
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    5What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

  • Heb 2:4
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    4while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

  • Gal 3:21
    72%

    21Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Jas 2:22
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    22You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

  • Jas 2:17-18
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    17So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

    18But someone will say,“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

  • Rom 3:30-31
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    30Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

    31Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.

  • 1 Cor 12:9
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    9to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

  • Jas 2:24
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    24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Acts 3:16
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    16And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ name, his very name has made this man– whom you see and know– strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.

  • Eph 2:8
    70%

    8For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

  • Jas 2:14
    70%

    14Faith and Works Together What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • Jas 2:26
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    26For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

  • Phil 3:9
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    9and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.

  • Rom 11:6
    69%

    6And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

  • 2 Cor 3:8
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    8how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?

  • Jas 2:20
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    20But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

  • Rom 9:30
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    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • Gal 3:18
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    18For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Eph 3:7
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    7I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

  • Rom 4:14
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    14For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

  • Rom 3:22
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    22namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • Rom 4:16
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    16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

  • 2 Cor 3:6
    69%

    6who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.