James 2:24
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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- Jas 2:15-18 : 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself. 18 But 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.
- Jas 2:21-22 : 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.
- Ps 60:12 : 12 By God’s power we will conquer; he will trample down our enemies.
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25 And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
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20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
22 You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.
23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
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17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
18 But 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.
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26 This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’ faithfulness.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!
28 For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.
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16 yet 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.
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1 The Illustration of Justification What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?
2 For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.
3 For what does the scripture say?“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
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5 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?
6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
7 so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.
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14 Faith 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?
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11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.
12 But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.
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22 So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
23 But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,
24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.
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9 Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”
10 How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!
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8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 it is not from works, so that no one can boast.
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17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”
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9 So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.
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30 Israel’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,
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39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
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6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.
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24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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31 By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.
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1 The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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16 For 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
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30 Since God is one, he will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
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24 Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith.
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20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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22 namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,
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2 For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.
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6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
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22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.