• ἔχῃ ἔργα — SBLGNT
• ἔχῃ ἔργα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• ἔργα ἔχῃ — Robinson-Pierpont

§162Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man. We can lose this priceless gift, as St. Paul indicated to St. Timothy: "Wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith."44 To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lo…

Chapter 27.—That the Peace of Those Who Serve God Cannot in This Mortal Life Be Apprehended in Its Perfection. But the peace which is peculiar to ourselves we enjoy now with God by faith, and shall hereafter enjoy eternally with Him by sight. But the peace which we enjoy in this life, whether common to all or peculiar to ourselves, is rather the solace of our misery than the po…

Our teachers are falsely accused of forbidding good works. Their writings on the Ten Commandments and other subjects prove the contrary, for they have taught well and helpfully about true Christian estates and works. About these matters little has been taught in former times; instead, childish and needless works such as rosaries, the cult of saints, monasticism, pilgrimages, ap…

As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection. He who has no religious affection is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.

We believe that this true faith, produced in us by the hearing of God's Word and by the work of the Holy Spirit, regenerates us and makes us new creatures, causing us to live a new life and freeing us from the slavery of sin. Therefore, far from making people cold toward living in a pious and holy way, this justifying faith, quite to the contrary, so works within them that apar…

We believe that no one is saved without faith. And by faith we mean the right notion that is in us concerning God and divine things. Which being joined with a living hope in God and a fervent love, or rather being formed by charity, justifieth us in Christ. And without this faith it is impossible to please God. But we affirm that this faith which justifieth is not the faith of…

We believe a man to be not simply justified through faith alone, but through faith which worketh through love, that is to say, through faith and works. Not that the foundation and certainty of our salvation resteth upon works; for no man can do the works of God — for Christ hath said, "Without me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5) — but that faith without works is dead, and worketh…

Although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and spring out of a true and lively faith, insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree is discerned by its fruit.

The Formula affirms that good works necessarily follow faith and are the fruit of the Spirit, pleasing to God for Christ's sake. Believers are created in Christ Jesus for good works. It denies both that works are necessary for salvation (as a cause) and that believers may live lawlessly. Works are necessary as evidence of faith, not as a ground of acceptance before God.