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4:1  What then shall we say that Abraham, · our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered about this?
4:2  For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about (but not before God).
4:3  For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed · God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4:4  Now to the one who works, his wages are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
4:5  But to the one who does not work, but entrusts himself to the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited · as righteousness.
4:6  So also David speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom · God credits righteousness apart from works:
4:7  “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, · and whose sins are covered. ·
4:8  Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”
4:9  · Therefore, is this blessedness for the circumcised alone, or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, “It was to Abraham that faith was credited as righteousness.”
4:10  How then was it credited to him? Was it after he was circumcised or before? It was not after his circumcision but before.
4:11  · He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith · while he was still · uncircumcised, so that he would be the father of all who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too might have righteousness credited to them. ·
4:12  He is also the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also · walk in the footsteps of the faith that · our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.
4:13  For the promise that he would be heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law, · but through the righteousness of faith.
4:14  For if the heirs are those who follow the law, then faith is meaningless · and the promise is void.
4:15  For the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there can be no violation.
4:16  For this reason the promise is based on faith, that it may depend on grace and so that it may be made certain to all his descendants, not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
4:17  As it is written, “I have made you the 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 the things that do not exist.
4:18  Hoping against hope, Abraham believed that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken, “So will your descendants be.” ·
4:19  · Not being weak in faith, he considered · his own body as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
4:20  He did not waver in unbelief regarding · the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
4:21  · fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do.
4:22  That is why · his faith was credited to him as righteousness.
4:23  But the statement, “it was credited to him,” was not written for his sake alone,
4:24  but for our sake as well, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus · our Lord from the dead,
4:25  who was delivered over to death for · our transgressions and raised for · our justification.