⁴ When people work, their ·pay [wage] is not ·given [credited; counted] as ·a gift [grace], but as something ·earned [due to them].

⁶ ·The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham [^LJust as (it says)]: “Abraham believed God, and ·God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God [^Lit (Abraham’s faith) was credited to him as righteousness; Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4].”