Topic
Work; Works
18 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 16:27ISBE
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
- Romans 2:6ISBE
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
- Romans 3:27ISBE
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
- Romans 4:2ISBE
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
- Romans 4:6ISBE
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
- 2 Corinthians 9:8ISBE
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
- Galatians 2:16ISBE
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no…
- Galatians 3:2ISBE
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:5ISBE
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
- Galatians 3:10ISBE
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
- Galatians 5:6ISBE
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
- Ephesians 2:10ISBE
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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- Colossians 1:10 ISBE
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ISBE
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17 ISBE
- Hebrews 9:14 ISBE
- Hebrews 10:24 ISBE
- 1 Peter 1:17 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
wurk, wurks: "To work" in the Old Testament is usually the translation of `asah, or of pa`al (of the works both of God and of man), and "work" (noun) is most frequently the translation of ma`aseh, or mela'khah; in the New Testament of energeo, ergazomai (and compound), with ergon (noun). The word "works" (erga) is a favorite designation in John for the wonderful works of Jesus (5:36; 10:38; 15:24, etc.; "miracles" to us, "works" to Him). "Works" is used by Paul and James, in a special sense, as denoting (with Paul) those legal performances by means of which men sought to be accepted of God, in contradistinction to that faith in Christ through which the sinner is justified apart from all legal works (Ro 3:27; 4:2,6, etc.; Ga 2:16; 3:2,5,10), "working through love" (Ga 5:6; 1Th 1:3), and is fruitful in all truly "good works," in which Christian believers are expected to abound (2Co 9:8; Eph 2:10; Col 1:10; 2Th 2:17, etc.). When James speaks of being justified by "works" as well as by "faith" (2:14-26), he has in view those works which show faith to be real and vital. "Dead works" avail nothing (compare Heb 9:14; 10:24). Judgment is according to "works" (Mt 16:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "deeds," margin "Greek: `doing' " praxis; Ro 2:6; 1Pe 1:17, etc.), the new life being therein evidenced. A contrast between "faith" and "good works" is never drawn in the New Testament.
See, further, JUSTIFICATION.
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.