Romans 4:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption, that is in Christ Jesus,