Romans 4:4

Romans 4:4. Now to him that worketh. Romans 4:4-5 illustrate Romans 4:3, by a general contrast of the two ways by which we can be accounted righteous. A workman whose business it is to labor for hire represents the legal method, the plan of making one's own moral character and doings the basis of acceptance with God.

The reward; his reward, for which he works.

N ot reckoned; this takes up the verb from Romans 4:3. but without emphasizing it.

Of grace, but of debt; not according to, as a matter of favor, but of debt. That Abraham's case was ‘of grace' is so heavily implied, that it was not necessary to express it, especially as the thought is now quite general.