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Chapter 4

1 What then shall we say 

that Abraham, our forefather 

according to the flesh, 

has discovered?

2 If Abraham was indeed justified by works, 

he had something to boast about,

but not before God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? 

“Abraham believed God, 

and it was credited to him 

As Righteousness.”

4 Now the wages of the worker 

are not credited as a gift, 

but as an obligation.

5 However, to the one who does not work, 

but believes in Him 

who justifies the ungodly, 

his faith is credited 

as righteousness.

6 And David speaks likewise 

of the blessedness of the man 

to whom God credits righteousness 

apart from works:

7 “Blessed are they whose lawless acts 

are forgiven, 

whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man 

whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

9 Is this blessing only on the circumcised, 

or also on the uncircumcised? 

We have been saying 

that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

10 In what context was it credited? 

Was it after his circumcision, 

or before? It was not after, 

but before.

11 And he received the sign of circumcision 

as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith 

while he was still uncircumcised. 

So then, he is the father of all who believe 

but are not circumcised, 

in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

12 And he is also the father of the circumcised 

who not only are circumcised, 

but who also walk 

in the footsteps of the faith 

that 

our father Abraham had 

before he was circumcised.

13 For the promise 

to Abraham and his offspring 

that he would be 

heir of the world 

was not given through the law, 

but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

14 For if those who live by the law 

are heirs, 

faith is useless 

and the promise is worthless,

15 because the law brings wrath. 

And where there is no law, 

there is no transgression.

16 Therefore, 

the promise comes by faith, 

so that it may rest on grace 

and may be guaranteed 

to all Abraham’s offspring—

not only to those 

who are of the law, 

but also to those 

who are of the faith of Abraham. 

He is the father of us all.

17 As it is written: 

“I have made you a father 

of many nations.” 

He is our father in the presence of God, 

in whom he believed, 

the God who gives life to the dead 

and calls into being 

what does not yet exist.

18 Against all hope, 

Abraham in hope believed 

and so became 

the father of many nations, 

just as he had been told, 

“So shall your offspring be.”

19 Without weakening in his faith, 

he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body 

(since he was about a hundred years old) 

and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

20 Yet he did not waver 

through disbelief in the promise of God, 

but was strengthened in his faith 

and gave glory to God,

21 being fully persuaded that 

God was able to do 

what He had promised.

22 This is why 

“it was credited to him as righteousness.”

23 Now the words 

“it was credited to him” 

were written not only for Abraham,

24 but also for us, 

to whom righteousness will be credited—

for us who believe in Him 

who raised Jesus our Lord 

from the dead.

25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses 

and was raised to life for our justification.