Romans 4:4 - Revised Version 1885

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

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

Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation (something owed to him).

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

Workers’ salaries aren’t credited to them on the basis of an employer’s grace but rather on the basis of what they deserve.

But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.

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

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;

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