Since you can not find any of those Scriptures......here are a few------
Rom. 3:28-30......
“For we maintain that a man
is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.”
Rom. 4:5..........
“But to the one who does not work,
but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness,”
Rom. 5:1.......
“therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Rom. 9:30......
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness,
even the righteousness which is by faith.“
Rom.
. 10:4......
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.”
Phil. 3:9...........
“and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law,
but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith.”
The point is that there are only two options.
1. We are saved by faith alone,
2. We are not.
Since we have faith and works (both conceptually and in practice), then we are either saved by faith alone or by faith and works. There is no other option.
If we see that the scriptures exclude works in any form as a means of our salvation, then logically, we are saved by faith alone.
The problem then comes for those who want to accept good works is then based in James 2:24 and the misunderstanding of what James said.......
“You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone.”
James is not contradicting the verses above that say salvation/justification is by faith alone.
Also, notice that James actually quotes the same verse that Paul quotes in Rom. 4:3 amongst a host of verses dealing with justification by faith.
James 2:23 says,............
“and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, and Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.'”
If James was trying to teach a contradictory doctrine of faith and works than the other New Testament writers, then he would not have used Abraham as an example.
Therefore, we can see that justification is by faith alone and that James was talking about false faith – not real faith – when he said we are not justified by faith alone.
THAT my "bro" is what I hold to!