Romans 4:4

Tree of Life Version

Now to the one who works, the pay is not credited as a gift, but as what is due.

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Or “who has first given to Him, that it shall be repaid to him?”

But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

They are set right as a gift of His grace, through the redemption that is in Messiah Yeshua.

Why? Because they pursued it not by faith, but as if it were from works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling,