Bible Verses About Works

and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.

thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.

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

Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased--to the age.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations--unto the age.

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

Cause me to remember--we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father--did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then it is well with him.

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well--is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.

and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job--they by their righteousness deliver their own soul--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.

And a man, when he is righteous, And hath done judgment and righteousness,

On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour defiled not, And to a separated woman cometh not near,

A man--he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,