Rom 4:4, Gal 3:12 | Family | STEP | That worketh ; so as to be saved on the ground of his own merit. The reward ; his salvation. Not of grace, but of debt ; if, in obedience to law, a person is justified, his salvation is merited, not bestowed as a gratuitous favor.

Romans 4:4

That worketh; so as to be saved on the ground of his own merit.

The reward; his salvation.

Not of grace, but of debt; if, in obedience to law, a person is justified, his salvation is merited, not bestowed as a gratuitous favor.

The law is not of faith; does not promise justification by faith, but by works.

But; that is, but its language is.

Shall live in them; by doing them. The law knows nothing of grace, but demands absolute obedience as its only condition of justification.