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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 something to boast about ,
but not before God .
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For what does the Scripture say ? "
Abraham believed God ,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness ."
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Now to him who works ,
the wages are not counted as grace but as debt .
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But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly ,
his faith is accounted for righteousness ,
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just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works :
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BBlessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven ,
And whose sins are covered ;
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Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin ."
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Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only ,
or upon the uncircumcised also ?
For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness .
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How then was it accounted ?
While he was circumcised ,
or uncircumcised ?
Not while circumcised ,
but while uncircumcised .
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And he received the sign of circumcision ,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised ,
that he might be the father of all those who believe ,
though they are uncircumcised ,
that righteousness might be imputed to them also ,
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and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision ,
but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised .
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For the promise that he would 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 those who are of the law are heirs ,
faith is made void and the promise made of no effect ,
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because the law brings about wrath ;
for where there is no law there is no transgression .
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Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace ,
so that the promise might be sure to all the seed ,
not only to those who are of the law ,
but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham ,
who is the father of us all
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as it is written , "
I have made you a father of many nations " )
in the presence of Him whom he believed--God ,
who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did ;
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who ,
contrary to hope ,
in hope believed ,
so that he became the father of many nations ,
according to what was spoken , "
So shall your descendants be ."
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And not being weak in faith ,
he did not consider his own body ,
already dead (
since he was 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 through unbelief ,
but was strengthened in faith ,
giving glory to God ,
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and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform .
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And therefore "
it was accounted to him for righteousness ."