Works
107 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Good in the Judgment, Will be an Evidence of Faith
- Good of the Righteous, are Manifest
- Good: A Blessing Attends
- Good: Designed to Lead Others to Glorify God
- Good: God is Glorified By
- Good: God Remembers
- Good: Holy Women should Manifest
- Good: Jesus an Example of
- Good: Servants should be Patterns of
- Good: Servants should Exhort To
- Good: The Barren Fig Tree
- Good: The Laborer's in the Vineyard
- Good: The Pounds
- Good: The Talents
- Good: The Two Sons
- Good: Will be Brought Into Judgment
- Insufficiency of, for Salvation
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
Good in the Judgment, Will be an Evidence of Faith
- Matthew 25:34–40 Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. …
- James 2:14–20 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? …
Good of the Righteous, are Manifest
- 1 Timothy 5:25 In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even the ones that are inconspicuous cannot remain hidden.
Good: A Blessing Attends
- James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.
Good: Designed to Lead Others to Glorify God
- Matthew 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
- 1 Peter 2:12 Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
Good: God is Glorified By
- John 15:8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
Good: God Remembers
- Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
- Hebrews 6:9–10 Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case— things that accompany salvation. …
Good: Holy Women should Manifest
- 1 Timothy 2:10 but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
- 1 Timothy 5:10 and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
Good: Jesus an Example of
- John 10:32 But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”
- Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
Good: Servants should be Patterns of
- Titus 2:7 In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,
Good: Servants should Exhort To
- 1 Timothy 6:17–18 Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. …
- Titus 3:1 Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,
- Titus 3:8 This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for the people.
- Titus 3:14 And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.
Good: The Barren Fig Tree
- Luke 13:6–9 Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. …
Good: The Laborer's in the Vineyard
- Matthew 20:11–15 On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner. …
Good: The Pounds
- Luke 19:12–27 So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return. …
Good: The Talents
- Matthew 25:14–29 For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions. …
Good: The Two Sons
- Matthew 21:28–31 But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ …
Good: Will be Brought Into Judgment
- Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- 2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
Insufficiency of, for Salvation
- Psalm 49:7–8 No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God. …
- Psalm 127:1–2 Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain. …
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
- Isaiah 43:26 Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
- Isaiah 57:12 I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
- Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Ezekiel 7:19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, …
- Ezekiel 33:12–19 Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from …
- Daniel 9:18 Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
- Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Luke 17:7–10 Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? …
- Luke 18:9–14 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: …
- Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Romans 3:20–31 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin. …
- Romans 4:1–22 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered? …
- Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 9:16 So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
- Romans 9:31–32 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. …
- Romans 11:6 And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. …
- 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 …
- Galatians 2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- Galatians 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
- Galatians 3:1–29 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. …
- Galatians 4:9–11 But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? …
- Galatians 5:2 Take notice: I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
- Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
- Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.
- Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
- Ephesians 2:8–9 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, …
- Philippians 3:3–9 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh — …
- Colossians 2:20–23 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: …
- 2 Timothy 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- Titus 3:4–5 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, …
- Hebrews 4:3–10 Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. …
- Hebrews 6:1–2 Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God, …
- Hebrews 9:1–14 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. …
- James 2:10–11 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. …
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Deuteronomy 6:25 And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
- Deuteronomy 24:13 be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
- Nehemiah 5:19 Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
- Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
- Job 30:25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
- Psalm 37:3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
- Psalm 90:17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!
- Psalm 106:30–31 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. …
- Jeremiah 22:15–16 Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him. …
- Ezekiel 14:14 then even if these three men— Noah, Daniel, and Job— were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 14:20 then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
- Ezekiel 18:5–9 Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right: …
- Matthew 3:8 Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
- Matthew 6:1–4 “Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. …
- Matthew 10:42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Matthew 18:5 And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
- Matthew 19:16–21 Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” …
- Matthew 25:34–46 Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. …
- Mark 10:17 As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- Luke 10:25 One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- John 3:21 But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
- John 15:2–8 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. …
- John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Acts 10:4 Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
- Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
- Romans 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6–9 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. …
- 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
- Galatians 6:4 Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
- Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- Philippians 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- Colossians 1:10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
- Colossians 3:12–14 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. …
- Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:7–8 As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. …
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
- 1 Timothy 2:10 but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
- 1 Timothy 5:9–10 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, faithful to her husband, …
- 1 Timothy 6:18–19 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, …
- 2 Timothy 2:21 So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
- 2 Timothy 3:16–17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, …
- Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Titus 3:1–2 Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work, …
- Titus 3:8 This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable for the people.
- Titus 3:14 And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works in order to meet the pressing needs of others, so that they will not be unfruitful.
- Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
- Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
- Hebrews 13:21 equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- James 1:22–27 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. …
- James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- James 3:17–18 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere. …
- Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead — those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
- Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.