Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
KJV
εἰ δὲ χάριτι, οὐκέτι ἐξ ἔργων, ἐπεὶ ἡ χάρις οὐκέτι γίνεται χάρις.
Greek NT
Si autem gratia, jam non ex operibus : alioquin gratia jam non est gratia.
Vulgate
But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
ASV
And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
οὐκέτι
ouketi
adverb · 47×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπεί
epei
conjunction · 26×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: χάρις | WH/Treg/NIV: χάρις | RP: + Εἰ δὲ ἐξ ἔργων οὐκέτι ἐστὶν χάρις ἐπεὶ τὸ ἔργον οὐκέτι ἐστὶν ἔργον
- χάρις — SBLGNT
- χάρις — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + Εἰ δὲ ἐξ ἔργων οὐκέτι ἐστὶν χάρις ἐπεὶ τὸ ἔργον οὐκέτι ἐστὶν ἔργον — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
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Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210218.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. Calvin shows that God's rejection of Israel is neither total nor final. A remnant according to the election of grace has been preserved. The Gentiles, like wild olive branches, have been grafted in — but they must not boast against the natural branches. If God spared not the natural branches, he may not spare the grafted ones either. T…
If we believe that Christ redeemed men by His blood, we are forced to confess that all of man was lost; otherwise, we make Christ either wholly superfluous, or else the redeemer of the least valuable part of man only; which is blasphemy, and sacrilege. Man's salvation is wholly dependent on the working of God, not on the works or will of man.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. This is the strongest argument against the righteousness of the law. If you could be made righteous by performing the law, then you have no need of Christ. But since you cannot do this, you need Christ. To mix law with grace, works with faith, is to frustrate the grace of God…
Can a man merit anything from God? Without grace, can anyone merit eternal life? May anyone with grace merit eternal life condignly? Is it chiefly through the instrumentality of charity that grace is the principle of merit? May a man merit the first grace for himself? May he merit it for someone else? Can anyone merit restoration after sin? Can he merit for himself an increase …
Christian faith is not an opinion or human conviction, but a most firm trust and a clear and steadfast assent of the mind, and then a most certain apprehension of the truth of God, presented in the Scriptures and in the Apostles' Creed. It is the gift of God, which is given to the elect according to the measure which God has distributed to each one. Because faith is a gift of G…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 1Pet 2:10 — Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 2Tim 1:9 — Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
- Acts 13:43 — Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
- Acts 20:24 — But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel
- Deut 7:7 — The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
- Deut 9:4 — Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of
- Deut 9:4 — Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of
- Eph 2:4 — But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
- Eph 2:9 — Not of works, lest any man should boast.
- Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
- Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
- Gal 3:12 — And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
- Gal 5:4 — Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
- Gal 5:4 — Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
- Gen 6:8 — But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
- Jer 50:20 — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
- Rom 3:27 — Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
- Rom 4:4 — Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
- Rom 4:4 — Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
- Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- Rom 6:14 — For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Rom 11:5 — Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
- Titus 3:5 — Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
- Titus 3:5 — Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
- Titus 3:7 — That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- Zech 4:7 — Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.