Romans 4

1What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh?● 2For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.● 3For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.● 4Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt.● 5But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.● 6As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works:● 7Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are● 8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.● 9This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.● 10How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.● 11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:● 12And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.● 13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.● 14For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.● 15For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.● 16Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed: not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,● 17(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.● 18Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.● 19And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.● 20In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:● 21Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.● 22And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.● 23Now it is not written only for him. that it was reputed to him unto justice,● 24But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,● 25Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.●