⁴ Now to the one who works,^(A) pay is not credited as a gift, but as something owed.

¹⁶ This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace,^(A) to guarantee it to all the descendants^(B)—not only to the one who is of the law^[a] but also to the one who is of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all.

⁸ For you are saved by grace^(A) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—