Rom 4
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What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not toward God.
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For what says the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him
for righteousness.
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Now to him whom works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.
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But to him whom works not, but believes on him whom justifies the ungodly, his faith
is reckoned for righteousness.
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Even as David also pronounces blessing upon the man, to whom God reckons righteousness
apart from works,
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[saying], Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
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Blessed is the man to whom, the Lord will not reckon sin.
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Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision
also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.
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How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision:
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and 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 them
that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned
to them;
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and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who
also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.
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For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be
heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
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For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is
made of none effect:
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for the law works anger; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
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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 Abraham, who is the father of us all
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(as it is written, A father of many nations have I made you) before him whom he believed,
[even] God, who gives life to the dead, and calls" the things that are not, as though
they were.
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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 shall your seed be.
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And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead
(he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah`s womb;
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yet, looking to the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong
through faith, giving glory to God,
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and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
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Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him;
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but for our sake also, to whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him whom raised
Jesus our Lord from the dead,
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who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.