And to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned as a favour but as a debt.
And if by favour, it is no longer of works, otherwise favour is no longer favour. And if it is of works, it is no longer favour, otherwise work is no longer work.
Why? Because it was not of belief, but as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the Stone of stumbling.
“Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him?”
being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah יהושע,