• Romans 4:5-13
  But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
  "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
  And whose sins are covered;
  Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin." Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
   
• James 2:23-24
  And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.'And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
   

Related Scriptures

• Romans 3:23
  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
   
• Romans 6:1-2
  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
   
• Romans 6:23
  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  
   
• Ephesians 2:8-9
  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
   
• Isaiah 64:6
  But we are all like an unclean thing,
  And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
  We all fade as a leaf,
  And our iniquities, like the wind,
  Have taken us away.
  
   
• Romans 6:12
  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
   
• Romans 6:15
  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
   
• James 2:21-22
  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?