Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?
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