Romans 4

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast, but not before God.

For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” \*

Now to the one working, the wage is not credited according to grace, but according to obligation.

Now to the one not working, but believing on the one justifying the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. \*

Even as David also speaks {of} the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed {are those} whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered. 8 Blessed {is} a man whose sin the Lord does certainly not count.” \*

Then {is} this blessedness upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, “His faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

How then was it credited? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? {It was} not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. \*

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that {he had} in his uncircumcision so that he would be the father of all the ones believing through uncircumcision, so that the righteousness would be credited to them;

and the father of circumcision to the one {being} not only from the circumcision, but to the ones also following in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham in uncircumcision. \*

For the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he would be heir of the world {was} not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if the heirs {are} from the law, the faith has been emptied, and the promise has been nullified.

For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, neither {is there} transgression. \*

For this reason {it is} by faith, in order that {it may be} according to grace, so that the promise might be certain to all the seed—not only to the one from the law, but also to the one from the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

just as it is written, “I have appointed you the father of many nations,” in the presence of God whom he trusted, the one making the dead ones live and calling the things not existing as existing; \*

who against hope believed on the basis of hope so that he might become the father of many nations according to what {was} said, “So will your seed be.”

And not weakening in the faith, he considered his own body as already being dead (being about a hundred years old)—and the deadness of the womb of Sarah. \*

But toward the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief, but was strengthened in the faith, having given glory to God,

and having been fully convinced that what he had promised, he is also able to do.

And therefore, “it was credited to him as righteousness.” \*

Now it was not written only for his sake, “It was credited to him,”

but also for our sake, to whom it is about to be credited, to the ones believing in the one having raised Jesus our Lord from the dead ones,

who was given up for the sake of our trespasses and was raised for the sake of our justification. \*