Romans 4:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ Now wages are not considered a gift if the person has to work for them, but [rather] an obligation [of his employer].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

Common English Bible

⁴ 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

⁴ But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.

Romans 4:4 Cross References

Romans 11:35

Or, who has given [something] to God that He has to pay back?

Romans 11:6

And if [they were selected] by God’s unearned favor, [then] the choice is not based on the good that people may do. Otherwise, God’s favor would not be [really] unearned.

Romans 3:24

But people are made right with Him as a free gift by His unearned favor, through being bought back [from Satan] by Christ Jesus.

Romans 9:32

Why? Because they did not [attempt to do it] by faith [in Him], but by trying to fulfill all the requirements [of the law]. So, they stumbled over “the stumbling stone,” [i.e., the Jews refused to become obedient to Christ. See I Pet. 2:6-8].