Romans 11:6

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And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

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Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land"; because the LORD drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and do not go out with our armies.

Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says the LORD, the God of Israel.

Thus says the LORD, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it:' so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

For the Lord will not reject forever.

"'"Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.

Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

not of works, that no one would boast.