Before doing this Bible study, please read the one-minute introduction: Why Salvation Always Leads to Good Works. It explains that good works are not required for salvation, but once we are saved, our love for Christ motivates us to do good works.
Consider how the passages below confirm these truths:
John 14:15,23: “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments ... “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."
Galatians 6:9: Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Hebrews 10:24: And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds
James 2:14-26: 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
copyright 2015, Gail Burton Purath, BiteSizeBibleStudy.com, edited and updated in 2025
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