Not of works, lest any one should boast.
And if to grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. And if of works, it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God.
(For not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that according to choice the purpose of God might remain, not of works, but of him calling;)
Surely then, not of him Willing, nor of him running, but of God commiserating.
Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,
