| 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 Sara'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. |
