Romans 4:4 - The Message4-5 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift. See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 17694 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic Edition4 Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him). See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. See the chapterCommon English Bible4 Workers’ salaries aren’t credited to them on the basis of an employer’s grace but rather on the basis of what they deserve. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version4 But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt. See the chapter |