Well, in order to get to the "works" you have to get past +Paul...
No, you don't. You just have to read his letters to the end. He ends every letter with a call to works of charity. It is a Protestant myth that there is any kind of tension between St. Paul and, say, the Gospel of Matthew or the Letter of James.
Ha! only if your method of reading scripture is pick and choose proof texting.;) If one reads scripture as the song of God's love of man, sung in many voices, there is no conflict.