Bible Verses About Works

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.”

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me? says the LORD.

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;