Many non-Catholics attempt to disprove certain tenets and articles of the Catholic Faith by appealing to the Sacred Scriptures and proposing that specific Catholic doctrines are nowhere to be found in the Holy Bible. Below are certain verses and passages (from Protestant Bible translations) that support Catholic doctrine:
Increase of grace, growth in righteousness/justification:
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day – Proverbs 4:18 ESV
Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy – Revelation 22:11 ESV
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment – Philippians 1:9 ESV
[A]nd may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you – 1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ – Ephesians 4:15 ESV
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. – 2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:20 ESV
Cooperation of Grace:
For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. – Psalm 18:29 ESV
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. – Psalm 127:1 ESV
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. – Philippians 4:13 ESV
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. – John 15:5 ESV
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. – 2 Corinthians 6:1 ESV
Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God. – 1 Chronicles 22:12 ESV
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. – Matthew 19:26 ESV
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. Habakkuk 3:19 ESV
Purgatory:
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts. – Proverbs 20:30 ESV
If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. – 1 Corinthians 3:15 ESV