Bible Cross References
What
James 2:16
What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!"---if you don't give them the necessities of life?
Jeremiah 7:8
"Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
Romans 2:25
If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised.
1 Corinthians 13:3
I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good.
1 Timothy 4:8
Physical exercise has some value, but spiritual exercise is valuable in every way, because it promises life both for the present and for the future.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.
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James 2:18
But someone will say, "One person has faith, another has actions." My answer is, "Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions."
James 2:26
So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead.
James 1:22-25
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Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice.
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If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.
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They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like.
25
But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice---you will be blessed by God in what you do.
Matthew 5:20
I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires.
Matthew 7:21-23
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"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.
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When the Judgment Day comes, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord! In your name we spoke God's message, by your name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles!'
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Then I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!'
Matthew 7:26-23
Matthew 7:27-23
Luke 6:49
But anyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a man who built his house without laying a foundation; when the flood hit that house it fell at once---and what a terrible crash that was!"
Acts 8:13
Simon himself also believed; and after being baptized, he stayed close to Philip and was astounded when he saw the great wonders and miracles that were being performed.
Acts 8:21
You have no part or share in our work, because your heart is not right in God's sight.
Acts 15:9
He made no difference between us and them; he forgave their sins because they believed.
1 Corinthians 13:2
I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 16:22
Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!
Galatians 5:6
For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.
Galatians 5:13
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm.
1 Timothy 1:5
The purpose of this order is to arouse the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith.
Titus 1:16
They claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.
Titus 3:8
This is a true saying. I want you to give special emphasis to these matters, so that those who believe in God may be concerned with giving their time to doing good deeds, which are good and useful for everyone.
Hebrews 11:7
It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.
Hebrews 11:8
It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:17
It was faith that made Abraham offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice when God put Abraham to the test. Abraham was the one to whom God had made the promise, yet he was ready to offer his only son as a sacrifice.
2 Peter 1:5
For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;
1 John 5:4
because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith.
1 John 5:5
Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.
Ephesians 2:8-10
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For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it.
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(SEE 2:8)
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God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.