Romans 4:4-14

⁴Now to him who works, the pay is not counted as a gift but as an obligation.

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

⁶Just as David 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 up.

⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin!”

⁹Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? Since we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness,

¹⁰how then was it credited? After he was circumcised or while still uncircumcised? Not circumcised, but uncircumcised!

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness from his faith while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, in order that this righteousness may be credited to them also,

¹²and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised.

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

¹⁴For if those who are of law are heirs, the faith is made empty and the promise has been invalidated;