Thesis 27: “Actually one should call the work of Christ an acting work (operans) and our work an accomplished work (operatum), and thus an accomplished work pleasing to God by the grace of the acting work.”
Thesis 28: “The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.”
Thesis 25: “He is not righteous who does much, but he who, without work, believes much in Christ.”
Thesis 26: “The law says, ‘do this’, and it is never done. Grace says, ‘believe in this’, and everything is already done.”
Thesis 23: “The law works the wrath of God, kills, reviles, accuses, judges, and condemns everything that is not in Christ.”
Thesis 24: “Yet that wisdom is not of itself evil, nor is the law to be evaded; but without the theology of the cross a person misuses the best things in the worst way.”
Thesis 22: “The wisdom which sees the invisible things of God in works as understood by human beings is puffed up, blinded, and hardened.”
Thesis 21: A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it actually is.
Thesis 16: “The person who believes that he can obtain grace by doing what is in him adds sin to sin so that he becomes doubly guilty.”
Thesis 17: “Nor does speaking in this manner give cause for despair, but for arousing the desire to humble oneself and seek the grace of Christ.”
Thesis 18: “It is certain that man must utterly despair of his own ability before he is prepared to receive the grace of Christ.”
Thesis 13: “After the fall, free will exists only as a concept, and as long as it acts in accordance with itself, commits a deadly sin.”
Thesis 14: “After the fall, free will only has the power to passively do good, but it is always able to actively do evil.”
Thesis 15: “Further still, free will could not remain in a state of innocence, much less actively do good, but the will is only able to do good passively.”
Thesis 9: “To say that works without Christ are indeed dead but not mortal sins seems a perilous rejection of the fear of God.”
Thesis 10: “Indeed, it is very difficult to see how a work can be dead and at the same time not a culpable, or mortal sin.”
Thesis 11: “Arrogance cannot be avoided nor can true hope be present, unless the judgment of damnation is feared in every work.”
Thesis 12: “As a consequence, in the sight of God sins are truly venial when human beings fear them as mortal.”
Thesis 7: “The works of the righteous would be mortal sins were they not feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.”
Thesis 8: “All the more are human works mortal sins when they are done without fear and in unadulterated, evil self-security.”
Thesis 5: “The works of human beings—we speak of works which appear to be good—are thus not mortal sins as if they were crimes.”
Thesis 6: “The works of God—we speak of those that are done through human beings—are thus not merits as if they were sinless.”
