Really, the main purpose of this blog is to encourage you to be more faithful in your daily walk. This can be anything from showing up on time, to exhibiting a good attitude and being a team player. It is also important to maintain a sense of humility so when you reflect on your works, you look at yourself with confidence that God will accept them into His kingdom
This article is a message of encouragement for people who are living in the world, but trying to be different. Jesus said that if you love Him, you will keep His commandments, and that if you don’t love him then you are a liar and the truth is not in you. He also spoke about works without faith not having any power to save anyone.
The Bible has many verses about works without faith. In these verses, the Bible tells us that we can do all kind of good work in life, but if we do not have faith in God and believe on Jesus, our work is in vain.
Faith Without Works
James 2:26 ESV / 166 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:14-26 ESV / 153 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …
James 2:24 ESV / 87 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
James 2:18 ESV / 65 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 53 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
James 2:20 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
James 2:17 ESV / 47 helpful votes
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
James 2:1-26 ESV / 39 helpful votes
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? …
James 1:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Titus 1:16 ESV / 35 helpful votes
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
Romans 3:28 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
James 2:14-24 ESV / 26 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …
Galatians 5:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
James 2:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …
Matthew 16:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
Matthew 15:8-9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
