There is nothing we can add or take away from the cross. All of our own righteousness is nothing more than dirty menstrual rags. If we think that we are doing things to earn God's favor, that means we believe God is indebted to us. It makes God's favor wages instead of grace. God is no man's debtor though, and owes no man anything. God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and it is through faith, which is a gift of God, that righteousness is imputed to us.
What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Romans 4:1-4 NKJV
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