Salvation is not by Works

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

…not by works, so that no one can boast.

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.