A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.
“Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?”
But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
Why not? Because they did it not by faith, but as if it could be done by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes stumbling,