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