Romans 2:13
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13 For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.
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James 1:22-25
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22 But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. 23 For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. 24 You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25 But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
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1 John 3:7
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7 Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous.
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James 2:21-25
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21 Don’t you remember that our ancestor Abraham was shown to be right with God by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see, his faith and his actions worked together. His actions made his faith complete. 23 And so it happened just as the Scriptures say: “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”[a] He was even called the friend of God.[b] 24 So you see, we are shown to be right with God by what we do, not by faith alone.
25 Rahab the prostitute is another example. She was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road.
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Romans 2:25
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25 The Jewish ceremony of circumcision has value only if you obey God’s law. But if you don’t obey God’s law, you are no better off than an uncircumcised Gentile.
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Galatians 2:16
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16 Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”[a]
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- 2:16 Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21.
Romans 10:5
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Salvation Is for Everyone
5 For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.[a]
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Luke 8:21
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21 Jesus replied, “My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God’s word and obey it.”
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1 John 2:29
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29 Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children.
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Galatians 3:11-12
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11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”[a] 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”[b]
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Romans 4:2-5
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2 If his good deeds had made him acceptable to God, he would have had something to boast about. But that was not God’s way. 3 For the Scriptures tell us, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”[a]
4 When people work, their wages are not a gift, but something they have earned. 5 But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.
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Romans 3:30
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30 There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.[a]
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- 3:30 Greek whether they are circumcised or uncircumcised.
Acts 13:39
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39 Everyone who believes in him is made right in God’s sight—something the law of Moses could never do.
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