OK. I was reading Romans yesterday and I came across these. Not sure if y'all are still arguing about the by works not by works and also not sure if it has been posted but i'll drop it in case.
Romans 1 vs 12. Kjv
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith ; as it were written, the just shall live by faith.
Romans 3 vs 27-28
27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what laway? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith
28. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (Work)
Romans 4 vs 1-5
1. What shall we say then that Abraham our Father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith his counted for righteousness.
Romans 4:13, 14, 16.
13. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect.
16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all.
Romans 5: 1-2
1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus christ:
2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.