Romans:4

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* What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh ? * For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works , he hath ground of boasting . But he hath no ground of boasting before God . * For what saith the scripture ? "Abraham had faith in God , and it was accounted unto him as righteousness ." * Now to him that performeth works , the reward is not accounted a matter of grace , but of debt ; * but 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 ; * as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous without works : * "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven , and whose sins are covered . * Blessed is the man whom the Lord shall not charge with sin ." * Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone , or to the uncircumcised also ? For we are saying that Abraham ’s faith was accounted as righteousness . * How then was it so accounted ? After his circumcision , or while he was uncircumcised ? Not after he was circumcised , but while he was uncircumcised . * And 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 ; * and 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 . * For 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 . * For if they that are of the Law are heirs , then faith becometh a vain thing , and the promise is made of no effect . * For the Law is the cause of wrath ; for where there is no law there is no transgression . * Therefore the inheritance was made to depend on faith , that it might be a matter of grace ; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring , not to that only which is under the Law , but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham , who is the father of us all * (as it is written , "I have made thee a father of many nations ") in the sight of that God whom he believed , who giveth life to the dead , and calleth the things that are not , as though they were . * For he had confident hope in that which was past hope , that he should become a father of many nations , according to that which was spoken , "Thus shall thy offspring be ;" * and not being weak in faith , he regarded not his own body which had become dead , he being about a hundred years old , nor the deadness of Sarah ’s womb ; * nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief , but was strong in faith , giving glory to God ; * being fully convinced , that what he hath promised , he is able also to perform . * And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness . * And that it was so accounted was not written for his sake alone , * but for our sakes also , to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead , * who was delivered up on account of our trespasses , and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous .

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