Bible Cross References
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Romans 3:27
What, then, can we boast about? Nothing! And what is the reason for this? Is it that we obey the Law? No, but that we believe.
Romans 3:28
For we conclude that a person is put right with God only through faith, and not by doing what the Law commands.
Romans 4:4
A person who works is paid wages, but they are not regarded as a gift; they are something that has been earned.
Romans 4:5
But those who depend on faith, not on deeds, and who believe in the God who declares the guilty to be innocent, it is this faith that God takes into account in order to put them right with himself.
Romans 5:20
Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.
Romans 5:21
So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Deuteronomy 9:4-6
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"After the LORD your God has driven them out for you, do not say to yourselves that he brought you in to possess this land because you deserved it. No, the LORD is going to drive these people out for you because they are wicked.
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It is not because you are good and do what is right that the LORD is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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You can be sure that the LORD is not giving you this fertile land because you deserve it. No, you are a stubborn people.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.
Galatians 2:21
I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 5:4
Those of you who try to be put right with God by obeying the Law have cut yourselves off from Christ. You are outside God's grace.
Ephesians 2:4-9
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But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,
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that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.
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In our union with Christ Jesus he raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world.
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He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of his grace in the love he showed us in Christ Jesus.
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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.
2 Timothy 1:9
He saved us and called us to be his own people, not because of what we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. He gave us this grace by means of Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,
Titus 3:5
he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.