¹ What will we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? ² For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before God. ³ For what said the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. ⁴ Now to him that works is the reward not counted of grace, but of debt. ⁵ But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. ⁶ Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to who God imputes righteousness without works, ⁷ saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Blessed is the man to who the Lord will not impute sin. ⁹ Does this blessedness come then on the circumcised only, or on the uncircumcised also? for we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰ How was it then counted? 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 to 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 works wrath: for where no law is, there is no lawbreaking. 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 you a father of many nations,) before him who he believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls 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 will your seed be. ¹⁹ And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now dead, when he was around a hundred years old, neither 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 who it will 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.