Romans 11:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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  • Deut 9:4-6 : 4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you. 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it because of your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Rom 3:27-28 : 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not given of grace, but as a debt. 5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more: 21 So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign 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 toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.
  • Eph 2:4-9 : 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;) 6 And raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who has 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 the world began,
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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  • Eph 2:8-9
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    8For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

    9Not of works, lest any man should boast.

  • 5Even so then, at this present time there is also a remnant according to the election of grace.

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

    5But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works,

  • 7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

  • 4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • 2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has reason to boast; but not before God.

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

  • 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

    15For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

    16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

  • 1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • 21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

  • 15But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of one many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

  • 1We then, as workers together with Him, urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified.

    15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • 11But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for 'The just shall live by faith.'

  • 30If I partake with thanks, why am I denounced for what I give thanks for?

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith.

    31But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

  • 11For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calls;

  • 24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

  • Rom 11:29-31
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    29For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

    30For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

    31even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

  • 17Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

    12Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

  • 15For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

  • 6Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel:

  • 5He who ministers to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

  • 22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

  • 5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • 20Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more:

  • 20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  • 6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

  • 9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • 11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

  • 17And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

  • 24You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

  • 21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.