1 What, then, shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast of, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."
4 Now to him who works, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt;
5 but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.
6 Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are they whose lawless deeds were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;
8 blessed is the man to whom the Lord will by no means reckon sin."
9 This blessedness, then, is it upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How, then, was it reckoned? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all who believe though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also,
12 and the father of the circumcised, to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect;
15 for the law works wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
16 For this reason it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, so that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not only to that which is of the law, but also to that 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"), in the presence of God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they were;
18 who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what had been spoken, "So shall your seed be."
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (he being about a hundred years old), nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;
20 but he did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully assured that what he has promised he is able also to do.
22 Therefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was reckoned to him,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be reckoned, to us who believe on him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.