Romans 4:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Romans 4:4 Cross References

Romans 11:35

“Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?”

Romans 11:6

But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 3:24

they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 9:32

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,