[WriteOn]

Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. [2] And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps, [3] and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. [4] It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste; it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb, [5] and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.

Is being chaste and honest a work?

[D-fendr]

"Is being chaste and honest a work? "

I think we have to go beyond just the "doing" in order to make sense of trying to define a "works-based" salvation theology.

If we limit it to doing something, then being honest, chaste, choosing to believe, etc… are all things that we do, and, if we limit the definition of works to things we do, perform, then yes, they are all works.