The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.

You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”

Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father.

If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”