| 1 | What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found? |
| 2 | For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God; |
| 3 | for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. |
| 4 | Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt: |
| 5 | but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness. |
| 6 | Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works: |
| 7 | Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered: |
| 8 | blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin. |
| 9 | [Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness. |
| 10 | How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. |
| 11 | And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also; |
| 12 | and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham. |
| 13 | For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith. |
| 14 | For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect. |
| 15 | For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression. |
| 16 | Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all, |
| 17 | (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being; |
| 18 | who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be: |
| 19 | and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb, |
| 20 | and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God; |
| 21 | and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do; |
| 22 | wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness. |
| 23 | Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him, |
| 24 | but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord, |
| 25 | who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned. |
