BIBLICAL FAITH

That doesn't mean He doesn't want you to do good works. He just doesn't want you to think of them in any way as a payment for His Grace or that you do them so you won't be obligated in any way, and that's certainly not what Grace is all about. Grace is free of debt. Can you see how hurtful it could be to Him? He just wants your Faith and love. By the way, what we owe Him, we can never pay back. We owe Him everything.

Even as David also describes the blessedness
of the man of whom God counts righteousness without works, saying,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin (Psalms 32:1,2).
Is this blessedness granted to the Jewish only, or upon the Gentiles also?
For we say that Faith was counted as righteousness for Abraham.
How was it counted then? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the Faith which he had,
before he was circumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe,
though they be Gentiles, that righteousness might be counted to them also,
and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that Faith of our father Abraham,
which he had before he was circumcised.
The promise, that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of Faith.
Because if they which are of the law were made the heirs,
Faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect,
because the law works wrath, because where no law is, there is no sin.
So, it is of Faith, that it might be by Grace,
to the end (concluding that) the promise might be guaranteed to all the seed,
not to only that which is of the law,
but to that also which is of the Faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, Genesis 17:5)
before Him whom he believed, even God, who gives back life to the dead,
and calls those things which be not as though they were
(and makes things happen that seem impossible).
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations,
according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be (Genesis 15:5).
And being strong in Faith, he considered not his own body now dead,
when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb, he didn't
doubt the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in Faith, giving glory to God,
and being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform.
And therefore it was counted to him for righteousness.
Now it wasn't written for his sake alone, that it was counted to him,
but for us also, to whom it shall be counted,
if we believe in Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.