Romans 11:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

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  • Deut 9:4-6 : 4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you. 5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Rom 3:27-28 : 27 What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt. 5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.
  • Eph 2:4-9 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation), 6 So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus; 7 That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus: 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: 9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

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  • Eph 2:8-9
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    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

    9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

  • Rom 11:5
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    5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4 Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.

    5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.

    6 As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

  • Rom 11:7
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    7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2 For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

    15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

    16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

  • Rom 6:1
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    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • Gal 2:21
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    21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27 What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

  • Rom 5:15
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    15 But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

  • 2 Cor 6:1
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    1 We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Gal 3:11
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    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

  • 1 Cor 10:30
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    30 But if I give praise to God for the food which I take, let no man say evil of me for that reason.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

  • Rom 9:11
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    11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

  • Rom 3:24
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    24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

  • Rom 11:29-31
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    29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

    30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

    31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

  • Jas 2:17
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    17 Even so faith without works is dead.

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

    12 Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

  • Rom 11:15
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    15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

  • Rom 9:6
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    6 But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

  • Gal 3:5
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    5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • Rom 11:22
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    22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.

  • Titus 3:5
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    5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

  • Rom 5:20
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    20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Gal 1:6
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    6 I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • Titus 2:11
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    11 For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

  • Rom 11:17
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    17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

  • Jas 2:24
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    24 You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.

  • Gal 3:21
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    21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.