Looking at the Greek just makes things worse: It shows how Smith got it absolutely wrong, and how he turned the passage upside down.
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"Paul purposefully uses the exact same participial phrase in the two verses, only in verse five he uses the direct negation thereof. So it is plainly his intent to provide a black and white contrast between the two individuals presented in each verse. And why is this important? Because we find in these verses the clearest explication of what it means to work and, in contrast to that, to believe, in all of Paul's writings. The effort he puts into making that contrast as strong as possible answers many of the attempts by modern men to insert some kind of meritorious works into the doctrine of justification." - James White
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