Romans 4:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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

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⁴ Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him).

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

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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.

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

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

Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”

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