Sha'ul�s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 4
{4:1} What then will we say that Avraham, our forefather, has found
according to the flesh? {4:2} For if Avraham was justified by works,
he has something to boast about, but not toward God. {4:3} For what
does the scripture say? "Avraham believed God, and it was accounted to
him for righteousness." {4:4} Now to him who works, the reward is not
accounted as of grace, but as of debt. {4:5} But to him who doesn't
work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is
accounted for righteousness. {4:6} Even as David also pronounces
blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
{4:7} "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
Whose sins are covered.
{4:8} Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not charge with sin."
{4:9} Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the
uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Avraham for
righteousness. {4:10} How then was it counted? When he was in
circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in
uncircumcision. {4:11} He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of
the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in
uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe,
though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be
accounted to them. {4:12} The father of circumcision to those who not
only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that
faith of our father, Avraham, which he had in uncircumcision. {4:13}
For not through the law was the promise to Avraham or to his seed that
he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of
faith. {4:14} For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made
void, and the promise is made of no effect. {4:15} For the law works
wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
{4:16} For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to
grace, to the end that the promise may 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 Avraham, who is the father of us all. {4:17} As it is written, "I
have made you a father of many nations." This is before him whom he
believed, God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that
are not, as though they were. {4:18} Who in hope believed against
hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations,
according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
{4:19} Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own
body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years
old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. {4:20} Yet, looking to the
promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but grew strong
through faith, giving glory to God, {4:21} and being fully assured
that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. {4:22}
Therefore also it was "reckoned to him for righteousness." {4:23} Now
it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
{4:24} but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who
believe in him who raised Yeshua, our Lord, from the dead, {4:25} who
was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our
justification.
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