but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

Boasting Excluded

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

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

Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

David Celebrates the Same Truth

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

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

(for 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),

For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.

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.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

Greeting Roman Saints

Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

Greetings from Paul’s Friends

Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you.