Romans Chapter 4
1 What shall we say then that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, then he has something in which to rejoice⁺, but not before God.
3 For what do the Scriptures say? Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Genesis 15:6
4 Now to those who work, the reward is not counted⁺ as grace, but as debt.
5 But to those who do not work, but believe in Him who justifies the ungodly, their faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also described the blessedness of those⁺ to whom God credits⁺ righteousness without works,
7 he said: Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Psalm 32:1
8 Blessed are those⁺ whom the Lord does not make accountable⁺ for their sin. Psalm 32:2
9 Is this blessedness, then, only upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited⁺ to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How was it then credited⁺? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith he had while still uncircumcised so that he might be the father of all who believe, even the uncircumcised, so that righteousness might be credited⁺ to them also,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but also to those who walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while he was still uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he would be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if only those who are of the law are heirs, then faith is made void 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 by faith, and that by God's grace, that the promise is assured⁺ to all descendants⁺, 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 the father of~ many nations. For you believed God who gives life⁺ to the dead and calls the not existing into what is existing. Genesis 17:5
18 Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to what God had spoken: So shall your seed be. Genesis 15:5
19 Not being weak in faith, Abraham 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 stagger at the promise of God through unbelief. But he was strong in faith, giving glory to God,
21 being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was also able to perform.
22 Therefore it was credited⁺ to him for righteousness. Genesis 15:6
23 Now this was not written for Abraham's sake alone, that it was credited⁺ to him.
24 But also for us to whom it shall be credited⁺, if we believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered for~ our transgressions⁺ and was raised again for~ our justification.