Romans 4:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him). American Standard Version (1901) Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. Common English Bible Workers’ salaries aren’t credited to them on the basis of an employer’s grace but rather on the basis of what they deserve. Catholic Public Domain Version But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt. |
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,