James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
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James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
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James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
1 Thessalonians 1:4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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2 Chronicles 20:7
Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
Isaiah 41:8
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Genesis 18:17
Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
John 11:11
He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
Song of Solomon 5:1
I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved
Job 16:21
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
Luke 12:4
“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full.
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Genesis 15:6
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
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:
Galatians 3:6
Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
Galatians 3:7
Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:10
How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
Romans 4:12
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 15:18
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
John 8:37
I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
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Exodus 33:11
Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
Numbers 12:8
With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
Deuteronomy 34:10
Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
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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.
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.
Psalms 143:2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
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.”
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 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Romans 8:33
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 3:11
Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
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Romans 4:21
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
Romans 4:22
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:23
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Romans 4:24
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
Galatians 3:9
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:29
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his only born son,
Genesis 22:9
They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
Genesis 22:10
Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22:12
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
Hebrews 11:19
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
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Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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2 Peter 1:5
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
2 Peter 1:7
and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
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