Now wages are regarded as due to the man who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;
Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a recompense?'
But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
But, in his loving-kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'