Romans 4:4-14

⁴Now to him that performeth works, the reward is not accounted a matter of grace, but of debt;

⁵but to him who without performing works hath faith in him who accepteth as righteous one that hath been ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness;

⁶as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous without works:

⁷“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸Blessed is the man whom the Lord shall not charge with sin.”

⁹Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abraham's faith was accounted as righteousness.

¹⁰How then was it so accounted? After his circumcision, or while he was uncircumcised? Not after he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

¹¹And he received the outward sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised who have faith, so that righteousness might be put to their account also;

¹²and that he might be the father of the circumcised, who are not circumcised merely, but who tread in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while yet uncircumcised.

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

¹⁴For if they that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.