Romans 11:6

World English Bible (2000)

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 Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;" because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations. 5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Rom 3:27-28 : 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
  • Rom 4:4-5 : 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; 21 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. 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.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • Gal 5:4 : 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
  • Eph 2:4-9 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 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,
  • Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    9 not of works, that no one would boast.

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

  • Rom 4:4-6
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    4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

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

  • 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

  • 10 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.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

    15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

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

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

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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

    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • 15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

  • 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

  • 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

    31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

  • 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

  • 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

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

    30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

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

  • 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

  • Rom 11:11-12
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    11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

    12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

  • 15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

  • 6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

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

  • 22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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

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

  • 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 6 I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

  • 9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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

  • 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

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

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