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Psalm 49:7,8None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
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Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you, that you may be justified.
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Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
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Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
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Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: 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 is the stumbling block of their iniquity.
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Ezekiel 33:12-19
Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.
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Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousnesses, but for your great mercies.
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Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Luke 17:7-10
But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
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Luke 18:9-14
And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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Acts 13:39
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Romans 3:20-31
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Romans 4:1-22
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
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Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
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Romans 9:16,31,32
So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
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Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Galatians 2:16,19,21
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Galatians 3:1-29
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
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Galatians 4:9-11
But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
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Galatians 5:2,4,6,18
Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
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Galatians 6:15
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
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Ephesians 2:8,9
For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
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Philippians 3:3-9
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
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Colossians 2:20-23
Why if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
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2 Timothy 1:9
Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
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Titus 3:4,5
But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
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Hebrews 4:3-10
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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Hebrews 6:1,2
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
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Hebrews 9:1-14
Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
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James 2:10,11
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
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The Canons of Dort.
... this is not owing to any defect or insufficiency in the ... free will, consent to the
terms of salvation, and actually ... in Christ; but because he who works in man ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 67 the canons of.htm
As his Fellow-Workers
... All He works for the salvation of men is ... The clearer our insight into the Divine
glory of God's work of saving souls, into the utter insufficiency of our ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/working for god/xxiv as his fellow-workers.htm
Introduction
... depending for regeneration and sanctification on the influences of the Holy Spirit;
the utter insufficiency of human works as the ground of salvation; a holy ...
/.../the epistle of paul to the philippians practically explained/introduction.htm
On the Unspeakable Advantages to be Derived from Meditating on the ...
... take what fully makes up for the insufficiency of my ... is desirous of great reward
and everlasting salvation, of high ... let him account as nothing the works of his ...
/.../suso/a little book of eternal wisdom/chapter xiv on the unspeakable.htm
That we must Avoid all Curiosity, and Humbly Acquiesce in God's ...
... but distinctly to declare which good works being foreseen ... it was not expedient for
our salvation that we ... about them, but testified the insufficiency of our ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter vii that we must.htm
Sebastian Franck: an Apostle of Inward Religion
... While a student in Heidelberg he first heard Martin Luther speak on the insufficiency
of works and on faith as the way of salvation, and though he must have ...
/.../chapter iv sebastian franck an.htm
Letter xxvi. (Circa AD 1127) to the Same
... time, but also my profession and my insufficiency which prevent ... us to wait in silence
for the salvation of the ... grace of God, and bringing forth works worthy of ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/letter xxvi circa a d 1127.htm
The Lord Our Righteousness
... least, glory in being the cause of our own salvation. ... It is plain, therefore, works
were to be, partly ... might thereby be convinced of the insufficiency of his ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the lord our righteousness.htm
the Manner of this Oversight
... To this end the works of charity are necessary, as ... own reward that we labor for,
but other men's salvation. ... under a deep sense of our own insufficiency, and of ...
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The New Man
... how singularly the very word proclaims the insufficiency of the ... of Him, as the means
of salvation from the ... same Apostle"'Let us cast off the works of darkness ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the new man.htm
Resources
Is it really possible for Christians to do greater works than Jesus? | GotQuestions.orgIs salvation by faith alone, or by faith plus works? | GotQuestions.orgWhat are the works of the law (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16)? | GotQuestions.orgWorks: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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