Bible Verses About Works

Moreouer, this shall be our righteousnes before the Lord our God, if we take heede to keepe all these commandements, as he hath commanded vs.

But shalt restore him the pledge when the sunne goeth downe, that he may sleepe in his raiment, and blesse thee: and it shalbe righteousnesse vnto thee before the Lord thy God.

Remember me, O my God, in goodnesse, according to all that I haue done for this people.

Remember me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my kindenes that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices thereof.

Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

Trust thou in the Lord and do good: dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed assuredly.

Yet a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother: he can not giue his raunsome to God,

(So precious is the redemption of their soules, and the continuance for euer)

And let the beautie of the Lord our God be vpon vs, and direct thou the worke of our hands vpon vs, euen direct the worke of our handes.

But Phinehas stoode vp, and executed iudgement, and the plague was staied.

And it was imputed vnto him for righteousnes from generation to generation for euer.

A song of degrees, or Psalme of Salomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lord keepe the citie, the keeper watcheth in vaine.

It is in vaine for you to rise earely, and to lie downe late, and eate the bread of sorow: but he wil surely giue rest to his beloued.

I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

Put me in remembrance: let vs be iudged together: count thou that thou maist be iustified.

I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite thee.

But we haue all bene as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnes is as filthie cloutes, and we all doe fade like a leafe, and our iniquities like the winde haue taken vs away.

Shalt thou reigne, because thou closest thy selfe in cedar? did not thy father eate and drinke and prosper, when he executed iudgement and iustice?

When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lord?

They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

Though these three men Noah, Daniel, and Iob were among them, they shoulde deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnes, saith the Lord God.

And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.

But if a man be iust, and doe that which is lawfull, and right,

And hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbours wife, neither hath lyen with a menstruous woman,

Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,