◄ Romans 4:4 ►
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Good News Translation
A person who works is paid wages, but they are not regarded as a gift; they are something that has been earned.

New Revised Standard Version
Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.

Contemporary English Version
Money paid to workers isn't a gift. It is something they earn by working.

New American Bible
A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Romans 9:32 Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

Romans 11:6,35 And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace. . . .

Matthew 20:1-16 The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. . . .

Context
Abraham Justified by Faith
…3For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice. 4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt. 5But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.…
Cross References
Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Romans 11:6
And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

Romans 4:3
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