Romans 4

¹What shall we say then that Abraham did find, our father according to the flesh?

²For if Abraham were justified by works: he hath glory, but not with God.

³For what saith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, & it was reputed him to justice.

⁴But to him that worketh, the reward is not imputed according to grace but according to debt.

⁵But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the impious, 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 be forgiven, and whose sins be covered.

⁸Blessed is the man to whom our Lord hath not imputed sin.

⁹This blessedness then doth it abide in the circumcision, or in the prepuce also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

¹⁰How was it reputed? in circumcision, or in prepuce? Not in circumcision, but in prepuce.

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of faith that is in prepuce: that he might be the father of all that believe by the prepuce, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

¹²and might be 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 prepuce of our father Abraham.

¹³For not by the Law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but by the justice of faith.

¹⁴For if they that are of the Law, be heirs; faith is made void, the promise is abolished.

¹⁵For the Law worketh wrath. For where is no Law, neither is there prevarication.

¹⁶Therefore of faith: that according to grace the promise may 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, (as it is written:

¹⁷For, a father of many Nations have I appointed thee ) before God, whom thou didst believe, who quickeneth the dead; calleth those things that are not, as those things that are.

¹⁸Who contrary to 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, as the stars of Heaven, and the sand of the sea.

¹⁹And he was not weakened in faith; neither did he consider his own body now quite dead, whereas he was almost an hundred years old, and the dead matrice 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 promised, he is able also to do.

²²Therefore was it also reputed him to justice.

²³And it is not written only for him, that it was reputed him to justice:

²⁴but also for us, to whom it shall be reputed believing 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.