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Romans 3:27, 28
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith. . . .

Romans 4:4, 5
Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. . . .

Romans 5:20, 21
The Law was given so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, . . .

Deuteronomy 9:4-6
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, "Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land." Rather, the LORD will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the Law, Christ died for nothing."

Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be justified by the Law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Ephesians 2:4-9
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, . . .

2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not because of our own works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time eternal.

Titus 3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

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