James 2:21

James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

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Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 12:1
Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 22:2
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Genesis 22:11
Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

Acts 7:2
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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.”

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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 15:15
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.

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Job 25:4
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

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.”

John 2:25
and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

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 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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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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,

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Hebrews 7:27
who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

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Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

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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 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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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