Be A Doer Of God's Word & Good Works

Ezra 7:10 (Revelation 22:7)

Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it... 

2 Corinthians 9:8 (HCSB)

God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

Philippians 4:9

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into  practice. 

Galatians 6:10

As we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (NLT)

We always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

Titus 3:14

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good...

Hebrews 6:10 (NLT)

God ...will not forget how hard you have worked for Him and how you have shown your love to Him by caring for other believers. 

Hebrews 10:24 (ESV)

Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works...

(NLT) ...motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

James 1:22, 2:18b 

Do not merely listen to the word...do what it says. Show (your) faith by what (you) do.

Martin Luther’s 99 Propositions

We do not become righteous by doing what is righteous; but having become righteous, we do what is righteous.

William Tyndale’s preface to Exodus       

If any man ask me, seeing faith justifies me, why I work, I answer, love compelleth me; for as long as my soul feeleth what love God hath showed me in Christ, I cannot but love God again, and His will and commandments.

Matthew Henry, An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments, on Psalm 37:1-6

Good men are more solicitous and desirous to know the duty that is to be done by them, than to know the events that shall be concerning them; for duty is ours, events are God's. 

William Gurnall  The Christian in Complete Armour

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

Thomas Manton on James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

A great fruit and token of piety is provision for the afflicted. In the 25th of Matthew you see acts of charity fill up the bill. Works of mercy do well become them that do expect or have received mercy from God. This is to be like God (and) one of the chief glories in the Godhead is the unweariedness of his love and bounty. He visits the fatherless and the widows, so should we. The spirit of our religion is for giving; and therefore the cruel hard heart is a kind of denying the faith (1 Timothy 5:8).  

Richard Baxter  Christian Directory "Christian Economics"

Do not only take occasions of doing good when they are thrust upon you; but study how to do all the good you can, as those "that are zealous of good works." Zeal of good works will make you plot and contrive for them; consult and ask advice for them; it will make you glad when you meet with a hopeful opportunity; it will make you do it largely, and not sparingly, and by the halves; it will make you do it speedily, without unwilling backwardness and delay; it will make you do it constantly to your lives' end. It will make you labor in it as your trade, and not consent that others do good at your charge. It will make you glad, when good is done, and not to grudge at what it cost you. In a word, it will make your neighbours to be to you as yourselves, and the pleasing of God to be above yourselves, and therefore to be as glad to do good as to receive it.

Jonathan Edwards on Deuteronomy 15:7-11

It is not merely a commendable thing for a man to be kind and bountiful to the poor, but our bounden duty, as much a duty as it is to pray, or to attend public worship, or any thing else whatever; and the neglect of it brings great guilt upon any person.

John Phillips, Exploring the Gospel of Mark: An Expository Commentary, on Mark 4:32 (When the mustard seed)…“is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

Everywhere the kingdom of God has gone, it has brought with it hospitals and schools; truth, morality, and ethics; decency and compassion; and, above all, salvation. Wherever the gospel has gone, it has abolished cannibalism (John G. Paton), child sacrifice (at the Hindu festival of Gunga Sagor) and the immolation of widows (William Carey), polygamy, demon worship, slavery (William Wilberforce), and a thousand other such ills. It has built orphanages and asylums, cared for the sick, comforted the bereaved, and helped the infirm. Even the unsaved have found shelter beneath its branches and found comfort and a better life in its shade.

Preface to Sermons on Job, translated by Rob Roy McGregor, The Banner of Truth Trust, 2022

Spirit-inspired righteous deeds performed in real time are the productive efforts that contribute to Christ’s eternal glory, which is the singular work of the Holy Spirit himself, the perfecting of the Body of Christ, the Church Triumphant, as portrayed in the image of the Bride of Christ, whose ‘fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints’ (Revelation 19:8).