Legalism
10 passages
- Ephesians 2:8–9
8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not by works, so that no one can boast.
Read it in context - John 6:28–29
28Then they inquired, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
Read it in context - Romans 3:28
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Read it in context - Galatians 2:16
know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Read it in context - Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
Read it in context - John 14:15
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Read it in context - Luke 6:46
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?
Read it in context - 2 John 1:9
Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 1:15
But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
Read it in context - Galatians 5:16
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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