1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as concerning the flesh, has found?
2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he has a reason to glory; but not before God.
3. For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
4. Now to one who works is the reward not considered of grace, but of debt.
5. But to one who does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6. Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works,
7. Saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
9. Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10. How was it then accounted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them also:
12. And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
13. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his descendents through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is made of no effect:
15. Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end that the promise might be sure to all the descendents; not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17. (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things that are not as though they were.
18. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your descendents be.
19. And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
20. He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
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