9 Bible Verses About Grace and Works
9 Bible verses about Grace and Works to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
It is not the result of what anyone has done, so there is no room for anyone to boast.
For it is by this grace that you have been saved, through faith. None of this comes from you; it is God’s gift. It is not the result of what anyone has done, so there is no room for anyone to boast.
Yet we know that no one is justified by works of the law; a person is justified only through faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because no human being will be justified by works of the law.
But to someone who does no work, yet believes in the God who declares the ungodly righteous, that faith is counted as righteousness.
he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
It is plain that no one is justified in God’s sight through the law, since “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
A worker’s wages are not counted as grace but as what is owed.
And if it is by grace, it does not come from works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
and be found in him, with no righteousness of my own from keeping the law, but with the righteousness that comes through faith in Christ: righteousness from God, resting on faith.