Bible Verses About Works

It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to obey all these mitzvot before ADONAI our God, just as he ordered us to do.'"

rather, you must restore the pledged item at sunset; then he will go to sleep wearing his garment and bless you. This will be an upright deed of yours before ADONAI your God.

My God, remember favorably everything I have done for this people!

My God, remember me for this; don't wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God and for his service!

Didn't I weep for those who were in trouble? Didn't I grieve for the needy?

Trust in ADONAI, and do good; settle in the land, and feed on faithfulness.

No one can ever redeem his brother or give God a ransom for him,

because the price for him is too high (leave the idea completely alone!)

May the favor of Adonai our God be on us, prosper for us all the work that we do -yes, prosper the work that we do.

Then Pinchas stood up and executed judgment; so the plague was checked.

That was credited to him as righteousness, through all generations forever.

A song of ascents. By Shlomo: Unless ADONAI builds the house, its builders work in vain. Unless ADONAI guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

In vain do you get up early and put off going to bed, working hard to earn a living; for he provides for his beloved, even when they sleep.

I have seen all the activities that are done under the sun, and it's all pointless, feeding on wind.

Remind me when we're in court together - tell your side, make the case that you are right.

I will expose your [so-called] 'righteousness'; and what you have done won't help you.

All of us are like someone unclean, all our righteous deeds like menstrual rags; we wither, all of us, like leaves; and our misdeeds blow us away like the wind.

Your cedar may be excellent, but that doesn't make you a better king. True, your father ate and drank, but he also did what was right and just, so things went well with him.

He upheld the cause of the poor and the weak, so everything went well. Isn't that what knowing me is all about?" says ADONAI.

They will throw their silver into the streets; their gold will be like something unclean. On the day of ADONAI's wrath their silver and gold won't be able to rescue them. These things won't satisfy their hunger, these things won't fill their stomachs, because these are what caused them to sin.

even if these three men were in it - Noach, Dani'el and Iyov - they would by their righteousness save only themselves," says Adonai ELOHIM.

even if Noach, Dani'el and Iyov were in it, as I live," says Adonai ELOHIM, "they would save neither a son nor a daughter; they would save only themselves by their righteousness."

"Consider someone who is righteous, who does what is lawful and right.

He doesn't eat on the mountains or raise his eyes toward the idols of the house of Isra'el; he doesn't defile his neighbor's wife or touch a woman during her time of menstrual impurity;

he doesn't wrong anyone; he returns any pledged property a debtor has given as collateral for a loan; he takes nothing by robbery, but gives his food to the hungry and clothing to those who need it;