Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.
But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: