Romans:4
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What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh ?
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For if Abraham was justified by works ,
he has [
grounds for ]
boasting ,
but not before God .
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For what does the Scripture say ? "
Abraham believed God ,
and it was credited to him as righteousness ."
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Now to him who works ,
his wage is not reckoned as a gift ,
but as his due .
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But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly ,
his faith is credited as righteousness ,
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just as David also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works :
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Blessed [
are ] [
they ]
whose lawless deeds have been forgiven ,
and whose sins have been covered ;
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Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall by no means impute sin ."
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Does this blessing then come upon the circumcision ,
or also upon the uncircumcised ?
For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness .
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How then was it credited ?
While he was circumcised ,
or in uncircumcision ?
Not in circumcision ,
but in uncircumcision .
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And 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 imputed to them ,
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and 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 .
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For 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 .
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For if those who are of [
the ]
law are heirs ,
faith is made void and the promise has been nullified ,
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because the law produces wrath ;
for where there is no law neither is there transgression .
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Therefore it is of faith that it may be according to grace ,
so that the promise might be sure to all the seed ,
not only to those [ ]
of the law ,
but also to those of the faith of Abraham ,
who is the father of us all ,
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just as it is written , "
I have appointed you a father of many nations ")
before God ,
whom he believed ,
the [
One ]
who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were ;
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who ,
contrary to hope ,
on hope believed ,
so that he should become a father of many nations ,
according to what was spoken , "
So shall your descendants be ."
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And not weakening in faith ,
he did not consider his own body ,
already having been worn out (
being about a hundred years old ),
and the deadness of Sarah '
s womb ,
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he did not waver at the promise of God in unbelief ,
but was empowered by faith ,
giving glory to God ,
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and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to do .
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And therefore "
it was credited to him as righteousness ."
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Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was credited to him ,
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but for us also ,
to whom it was going to be credited ,
those believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead ,
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who was delivered up for our transgressions ,
and was raised for our justification .