Romans 4:4

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

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 works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;