Romans:4
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What shall we say then that Abraham our father ,
as pertaining to the flesh ,
hath found ?
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For if Abraham were justified by works ,
he hath whereof to glory ;
but not before God .
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For what saith the scripture ?
Abraham believed God ,
and it was counted unto him for righteousness .
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Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace ,
but of debt .
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But to him that worketh not ,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly ,
his faith is counted for righteousness .
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Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man ,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works ,
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Saying ,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven ,
and whose sins are covered .
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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin .
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Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only ,
or upon the uncircumcision also ?
for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness .
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How was it then reckoned ?
when he was in circumcision ,
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 yet being uncircumcised :
that he might be the father of all them that believe ,
though they be not circumcised ;
that righteousness might be imputed unto them also :
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And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only ,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham ,
which he had being yet uncircumcised .
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For the promise ,
that he should be the 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 they which are of the law be heirs ,
faith is made void ,
and the promise made of none effect :
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Because the law worketh wrath :
for where no law is ,
there is no transgression .
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Therefore it is of faith ,
that it might be by grace ;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ;
not to that only which is of the law ,
but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ;
who is the father of us all ,
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As it is written ,
I have made thee a father of many nations ,)
before him whom he believed ,
even God ,
who quickeneth the dead ,
and calleth those things which be not as though they were .
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Who against hope believed in hope ,
that he might become the father of many nations ,
according to that which was spoken ,
So shall thy seed be .
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And being not weak in faith ,
he considered not his own body now dead ,
when he was about an hundred years old ,
neither yet the deadness of Sara '
s womb :
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He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief ;
but was strong in faith ,
giving glory to God ;
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And being fully persuaded that ,
what he had promised ,
he was able also to perform .
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And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness .
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Now it was not written for his sake alone ,
that it was imputed to him ;
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But for us also ,
to whom it shall be imputed ,
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead ;
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Who was delivered for our offences ,
and was raised again for our justification .