yet it does not earn us salvation, very important to understand that
Good works do not deliver us not because good works are not required, but because God chose who he will deliver before the foundation of the world, before anyone did any works to deserve reward or punishment, that it is why it is not by words that we are delivered, but by the predestination of God in choosing who he will deliver that we are delivered. And those he chooses to deliver, are
required to yield good works, hence,
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16
though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or evil, in order that God’s purpose of election might stand, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Romans 9:11-13
So then it is not of the one wanting, nor of the one running, but of the showing mercy of God.
Romans 9:16
even as
he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be set-apart and blameless before him. In love
Ephesians 1:4
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And
those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8:29-30
so that you may live a life worthy of the Master and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 1:10
So, my brothers and sisters,
you also died to the Torah through the body of the Messiah, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Romans 7:4
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and
to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Titus 2:14
For we are God’s handiwork,
created in the Messiah Yeshuah to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities,
to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
Titus 3:1
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
1 Timothy 6:18
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
You see that a person is justified by works and not by belief alone.
James 2:24
If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that Yehovah your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and
you give him nothing, and he cry to Yehovah against you, and you become guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 15:7-9
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
James 4:17
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7:19
