…the whole idea that Paul’s concept of faith is in fundamental conflict with such a retribution according to works must be rejected. Not only will it yet appear in the subsequent course of our investigation that justification and sanctification, Christ’s dying for the sins of his people and their dying in him to those sins, are inseparable in Paul’s preaching, not merely as indicative and imperative, but in the first place as two redemptive realities coninciding in Christ’s death and resurrection; but the contrast “faith” and “works,” as we have met with it in such an absolute sense is not to be understood in any other way than as a contrast between the grace of God on the one hand and human achievement as the ground for justification on the other. That faith and works, however, are mutually exclusive only in this sense, but for the rest, where meritoriousness is not in question, belong inseparably together, is evident from the whole of Paul’s preaching.