Romans 4:4-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ Now to a person who works, his pay is not counted as a gift but as something owed. ⁵ But to the person who does not work but believes in the God who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness.

⁶ This is exactly what David says about the blessed state of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: