To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of favour: but of duty.
other who hath given unto him first, that he might be recompensed again?
If it be of grace then is it not by the deserving of works. For then were faveour no more faveour. If it be by the deserving of works, then is there no faveour. For then were deserving no deserving.
but are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesu,
And wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith: but as it were by the works of the law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.