These verses and passages (from Protestant Bible translations) disprove many Protestant doctrines:
Protestants claim that Christians are justified by faith alone. Regarding James 2:14-24, Protestants claim, also, that the justification St. James is referring to is justification before men and not before God; below are verses contradicting this claim:
“You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” – Luke 16:15 ESV
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” – Matthew 6:1 ESV
“But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” – John 3:21 NIV
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.” – Ephesians 1:4 NIV
“…that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.” – Luke 1:74-75 ESV
Regarding how a Christian is considered righteous, Protestants claim that Christians are solely declared to be righteous as Christ’s merits are imputed to us rather than infused into our souls; below are verses that teach infusion and/or reject imputation:
“and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:5 ESV
“And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” – Galatians 4:6 ESV
“By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.” – 2 Timothy 1:14 ESV
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” – 1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV
“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.” – Proverbs 17:15 ESV
“For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.” – Romans 5:19 ESV
“The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” – Acts 10:15 NIV
“…so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” – Isaiah 55 NIV
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” – Ephesians 2:10 ESV
Many Protestants claim that Christians cannot help but live in “total depravity”, i.e. living in habitual sin without preventing and/or deterring the acts of sinning; below are verses that reject the claim of total depravity:
“Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” – 2 Thessalonians 5:23-24 ESV
“for at ONE time you WERE darkness, but NOW you ARE light in the Lord.” – Ephesians 5:8
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such WERE some of you.” – Galatians 5:9-11 ESV
“I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.” – Romans 15:14 ESV
“And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” – Galatians 5:24 ESV
“even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” – Ephesians 1:4 ESV
“But thanks be to God, that you who WERE ONCE slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed.” – Romans 6:17 ESV
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you ONCE walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all ONCE lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” – Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV
“My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” – 1 John 2:1 ESV