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Want to know what the Bible says about Legalism? Here are 43 Bible verses about Legalism from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
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John 6:28-29 NIV
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
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Romans 3:28 NIV
For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
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Galatians 2:21 NIV
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
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Galatians 2:16 NIV
know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
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Matthew 23:1-4 NIV
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
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Luke 6:46 NIV
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
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2 John 1:9 NIV
Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
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1 Peter 1:15 NIV
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
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Galatians 5:16 NIV
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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John 14:21 NIV
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
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Colossians 2:6 NIV
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
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2 Timothy 2:15 NIV
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
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1 John 5:3 NIV
In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,
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Romans 12:2 NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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Zechariah 4:6 NIV
So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
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Matthew 16:6 NIV
“Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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Romans 11:6 NIV
And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
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Ecclesiastes 1:18 NIV
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
    the more knowledge, the more grief.
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