Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
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Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
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Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Romans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Galatians 3:6
Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
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Romans 3:27
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
Galatians 2:16
yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 3:11
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 5:21
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalms 143:2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Acts 13:39
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Romans 3:30
since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Romans 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
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Romans 3:28
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Galatians 3:2
I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
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Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Romans 9:11
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
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James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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1 Corinthians 1:29
that no flesh should boast before God.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
1 Corinthians 1:31
that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Romans 15:17
I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
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Romans 3:23
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:24
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Romans 3:26
to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
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Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
2 Corinthians 5:12
For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
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2 Corinthians 9:3
But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
2 Corinthians 1:14
as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
Philippians 1:26
that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
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1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
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Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
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Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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