But as of debt (αλλα κατα οφειλημα). An illustration of the workman (εργαζομενω) who gets his wages due him, "not as of grace" (ου…

Now to him that worketh, etc. This passage is not to be understood as affirming that any actually have worked out their salvation…

This, then (the righteousness attributed to Abraham), was an act of grace on the part of God, and not of merit on the part of man. It therefore car…

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he has something…

Paul now asks what Abraham had “discovered” about getting into right relation to God. In calling Abraham “our forefather,” he is not addressing Jew…

To him indeed who works, etc. The 'worker' to whom Paul refers is not the person merely engaged in good works (which all God’s ch…

Now to him that worketh
The apostle illustrates the former case by two sorts of persons in this and the next verse, …

To meet the views of the Jews, the apostle first refers to the example of Abraham, in whom the Jews gloried as their most renowned forefather. Howe…

1. After dismissing the glory the Jews took in the law, through which they considered themselves superior to the Gentiles, the Apostle now d…