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.
Gen 15:6
Gal 3:6
James 2:23
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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.
Psa 32:1
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8 |
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will
not impute sin.
Psa 32:2
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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.
Gen 17:5
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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.
Gen 15:5
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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. |