Romans 4:4-14

⁴Now to him who works, his wage is not credited as a gift, but as his due.

⁵But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

⁶just as David also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

⁷“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered;

⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall by no means impute sin.”

⁹Does this blessing then come upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

¹⁰How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those that believe, although uncircumcised, so that righteousness should also be credited to them,

¹²and the father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those following in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while in uncircumcision.

¹³For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect,