Romans 11:6

But if by grace, it is not of works; otherwise grace is not grace. But if by works, it is not of grace; otherwise work is not work.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5So also, at this time, a residue is left by the election of grace.

7What then, That which Israel sought he hath not found; but the election hath found: but the rest of them are blinded in their hearts.

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Cross References

Romans 4:4But to him who worketh, his wages are not reckoned to him as of favour, but as that which is owing to him:

1 Corinthians 15:10but by the grace of Aloha I am what I am; and his grace in me was not in vain; but more than all have I laboured, (yet) not I, but his grace which is with me.

Galatians 5:4You have ceased from the Meshiha who are justified by the law, and from grace you have fallen.

2 Timothy 1:9who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling; not according to our works, but according to his will, and that grace of his which was given to us in Jeshu Meshiha before the time of the worlds,

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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