Romans:4

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* What then will we say that Abraham , our forefather , has found according to the flesh ? * For if Abraham was justified by works , he has something to boast about , but not toward God . * For what does the Scripture say ? "Abraham believed God , and it was accounted to him for righteousness ." {Genesis strkjv @15:6 } * Now to him who works , the reward is not counted as grace , but as something owed . * But to him who doesn 't work , but believes in him who justifies the ungodly , his faith is accounted for righteousness . * Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works , * "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven , whose sins are covered . * Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin ." {Psalm strkjv @32:1-2 } * Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised , or on the uncircumcised also ? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness . * How then was it counted ? When he was in circumcision , or in uncircumcision ? Not in circumcision , but in uncircumcision . * He received the sign of circumcision , a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision , that he might be the father of all those who believe , though they might be in uncircumcision , that righteousness might also be accounted to them . * He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision , but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham , which he had in uncircumcision . * For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn 't through the law , but through the righteousness of faith . * For if those who are of the law are heirs , faith is made void , and the promise is made of no effect . * For the law works wrath , for where there is no law , neither is there disobedience . * For this cause it is of faith , that it may be according to grace , to the end that the promise may 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 . * As it is written , "I have made you a father of many nations ." {Genesis strkjv @17:5 } This is in the presence of him whom he believed : God , who gives life to the dead , and calls the things that are not , as though they were . * Who in hope believed against hope , to the end that he might become a father of many nations , according to that which had been spoken , "So will your seed be ." {Genesis strkjv @15:5 } * Without being weakened in faith , he didn 't consider his own body , already having been worn out , (he being about a hundred years old ), and the deadness of Sarah 's womb . * Yet , looking to the promise of God , he didn 't waver through unbelief , but grew strong through faith , giving glory to God , * and being fully assured that what he had promised , he was also able to perform . * Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness ." {Genesis strkjv @15:6 } * Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone , * but for our sake also , to whom it will be accounted , who believe in him who raised Jesus , our Lord , from the dead , * who was delivered up for our trespasses , and was raised for our justification .

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