¹What then shall we say Abraham our father has found with respect to the flesh? ²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a reason to boast, but not to God. ³For what does the scripture say? “Now Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him as righteousness.” ⁴And the wages due to the workman are not considered as being of grace, but as a debt. ⁵But for one who does not work, but who believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. ⁶As indeed David also says of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness, apart from works, ⁹So is this blessedness on the circumcision or also on the uncircumcision? For we say, “Faith was imputed to Abraham as righteousness.” ¹⁰How then was it imputed? To him when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision. ¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith which was in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those who believe despite uncircumcision, with a view to righteousness being imputed to them also, ¹²and the father of the circumcision, not to those of the circumcision only, but also to those who march in the footsteps of our father Abraham's faith, which was in uncircumcision. ¹³For the promise to Abraham or to his seed was not through the law, that he should be heir to the world, but it was through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴For if those of the law were heirs, faith would have been made void, and the promise would have been invalidated, ¹⁵for the law engenders wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there transgression. ¹⁶Here is why it is of faith: so that it is by grace, in order that the promise be secure for all the seed, not only to that of the law, but also to that of Abraham's faith, who is the father of us all, ¹⁷as it stands written: “I have appointed you a father of many nations”, in the sight of God, whom he believed, who makes the dead alive and calls the things not in existence to exist. ¹⁸And he against hope but in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: “So shall your seed be.” ¹⁹And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, which was by that time dead, he being about one hundred years old, or the deadness of Sarah's womb, ²⁰and he did not hesitate at God's promise in disbelief, but he was strengthened in faith, and he gave glory to God, ²¹and he was fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do, ²²which is also why it was imputed to him as righteousness. ²³But it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, ²⁴but also for our sakes, to whom it is going to be imputed – to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, ²⁵who was delivered on account of our transgressions and raised on account of our justification.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.3 ↔ Genesis 15:6 ● v.7 ↔ Psalm 32:1 ● v.8 ↔ Psalm 32:2 ● v.17 ↔ Genesis 17:5 ● v.18 ↔ Genesis 15:5 ● v.22 ↔ Genesis 15:6.