Ah, we don’t need to do good works. They are the fruit of being controlled, filled with the Holy Spirit. Study the Fruit of the Spirit in Gal 5, Agape Love in I Cor 13, the book of Acts about what happened when people were filled with the Holy Spirit.
Good works don’t do themselves. We need to do them or they will not be done:
Matt.5[16] Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
John.7 [3] So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples may see the works you are doing. [4] For no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
John.9 [3] Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. [4] We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.
Acts.9 [36] Now there was at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
Rom.2 [6] For he will render to every man according to his works:
Jas.2 [14] What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? [17] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. [18] But some one will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. [20] Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? [21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? [22] You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, [24] You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. [25] And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? [26] For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.
Jas.3 [13] Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
And there are more such quotes. The works in Gal and Eph are
works of the law. Those are the works that do not save. But, the good works of faith are necessary since by them we show our faith, as James plainly tells us.
