Romans chapter 4
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Abraham counted righteous by faith
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, 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 him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not count sin.”
Before circumcision
9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How then was it counted? While 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 while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be counted 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 while still uncircumcised.
The promise by faith
13 For the promise that he would be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect,
15 because the law brings wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that which is 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 God whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls the 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 what was spoken, “So shall your seed be.”
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead, when he was about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 He did not waver 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 also able to perform.
22 And therefore it was counted to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was counted to him,
24 but for us also, to whom it will be counted if we believe on him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised for our justification.
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