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What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? (4:1)

For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God (4:2)

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness (4:3)

Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt (4:4)

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness (4:5)

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, (4:6)

[Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered (4:7)

Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin (4:8)

[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness (4:9)

How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision (4:10)

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: (4:11)

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 (4:12)

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 (4:13)

For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: (4:14)

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression (4:15)

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, (4:16)

(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 (4:17)

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 (4:18)

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 Sarah's womb: (4:19)

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; (4:20)

And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform (4:21)

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness (4:22)

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; (4:23)

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; (4:24)

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification (4:25)

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