Romans 4:1-25 LSV

[1] What, then, will we say Abraham our father to have found, according to flesh? [2] For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has to boast—but not before God; [3] for what does the writing say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness”; [4] and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; [5] and to him who is not working, and is believing on Him who is declaring righteous the impious, 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 acts were forgiven, || And whose sins were covered; [8] Blessed [is] the man || To whom the LORD may not reckon sin.” [9] [Is] this blessedness, then, on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision—for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness? [10] How then was it reckoned? He being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision; [11] and he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them, [12] and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of faith, that [is] in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham. [13] For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith; [14] for if they who are of law [are] heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless; [15] for the Law works wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression. [16] Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the Law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham, [17] who is father of us all (according as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you,”) before Him whom he believed—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that are not as being. [18] Who, against hope, believed in hope, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: “So will your seed be”; [19] and having not been weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead (being about one hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb, [20] and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God, [21] and having been fully persuaded that what He has promised He is also able to do: [22] for this reason also it was reckoned to him for righteousness. [23] And it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him, [24] but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord out of the dead, [25] who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.