Romans 4:1-13

¹What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

²for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast — but not before God;

³for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him — to righteousness;'

⁴and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

⁵and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned — to righteousness:

⁶even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

⁷'Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

⁸happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

⁹Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision — for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham — to righteousness?

¹⁰how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

¹¹and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

¹²and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

¹³For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;