Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

He will reward each one according to his works:

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but (as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”