James 2:20

James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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Genesis 8:8
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

Acts 17:31
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

1 Corinthians 15:15
Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up if it is true that the dead are not raised.

1 Corinthians 15:17
If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

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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.

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Genesis 15:6
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

Psalms 106:31
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Jonah 3:8
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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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.

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Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:3
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

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2 Samuel 6:20
Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Acts 19:13
But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

Acts 19:14
There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

Acts 19:15
The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

Acts 19:16
The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Acts 19:17
This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Acts 19:18
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.

Acts 19:19
Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Acts 19:20
So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

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1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

1 Chronicles 29:16
Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.

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Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Psalms 24:5
He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Psalms 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.

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Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Psalms 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

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Psalms 78:35
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Psalms 78:36
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

Matthew 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it;

Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Mark 4:16
These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Acts 8:13
Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

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Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Psalms 94:9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

Psalms 94:10
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Psalms 94:11
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

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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?

Psalms 130:3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Psalms 143:2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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.

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Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

Luke 19:16
The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Colossians 1:28
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Zephaniah 1:12
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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Job 11:11
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 15:35
But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

Colossians 2:8
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.

1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

1 Timothy 1:6
from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Hosea 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

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Matthew 20:3
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

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Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

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Matthew 9:22
But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

Mark 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

Mark 5:34
He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

Mark 10:52
Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.

Luke 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Luke 8:48
He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Luke 18:42
Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you.”

Acts 14:9
He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

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1 Samuel 2:30
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

Ezekiel 18:9
has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Hosea 8:2
They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’

Hosea 8:3
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Luke 6:49
But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”

Luke 13:25
When once the master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

Luke 18:22
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Luke 24:25
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

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John 3:36
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

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John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 6:14
When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”

John 7:31
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

John 12:42
Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Ephesians 3:16
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Ephesians 3:17
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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Matthew 24:13
But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 8:14
What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life; and they bring no fruit to maturity.

Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Luke 8:18
Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Luke 8:42
for he had an only born daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

John 6:29
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Romans 2:3
Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

Philippians 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

1 John 3:23
This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Revelation 2:26
He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

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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 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”

Matthew 25:11
Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

Matthew 25:12
But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.

John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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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John 13:12
So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

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Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

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Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

2 Corinthians 4:2
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 8:21
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

1 Peter 3:16
having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

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Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Galatians 5:26
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Colossians 1:6
which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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Hebrews 9:17
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

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1 Samuel 12:21
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

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.”

Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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

James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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