Romans - 4

1 - What shall we say then that Abraham - our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

2 - For if Abraham - were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

3 - For what saith the scripture? Abraham - believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

4 - Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

5 - But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

6 - Even as David - also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

7 - Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 - Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

9 - Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham - for righteousness.

10 - How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11 - 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:

12 - 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.

13 - 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.

14 - For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

15 - Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

16 - 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,

17 - (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.

18 - 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.

19 - 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 Sarah - 's womb:

20 - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 - And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

22 - And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23 - Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

24 - But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus - our Lord from the dead;

25 - Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.