Romans 4:1-13

¹What then shall we say, that Abraham, our father after the flesh, found?

²For if Abraham is justified of works of the law, he hath glory, but not with God.

³For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed to God, and it was areckoned to him to rightwiseness.

⁴And to him that worketh, meed is not areckoned by grace, but by debt.

⁵Soothly to him that worketh not, but believeth into him that justifieth a wicked or an unpious man, his faith is areckoned to rightwiseness, after the purpose of God’s grace.

⁶As David saith the blessedness of a man, whom God accepteth, he giveth to him rightwiseness without works of the law,

⁷Blessed be they, whose wicked-nesses be forgiven, and whose sins be hid or be covered.

⁸Blessed is that man, to whom God areckoned not sin.

⁹Then whether dwelleth this blessedness only in circumcision, or also in prepuce? For we say, that the faith was areckoned to Abraham to rightwiseness.

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

¹¹And he took a sign of circumcision, a token or a marking of rightwiseness of the faith which is in prepuce, that he be father of all men believing by prepuce, that it be areckoned also to them to rightwise-ness;

¹²and that he be father of circumcision, not only to them that be of circumcision, but also to them that pursue the steps of the faith, which faith is in prepuce of our father Abraham, or but and to them that pursue the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, that is in prepuce.

¹³For not by the law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be the heir of the world, but by the rightwiseness of faith.