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¹ What then say we of Abraham, the chief of the fathers, that he found in the flesh ?² For if Abraham by works was justified, he had cause for boasting; but not with Aloha.³ For what saith the scripture ? That Abraham believed Aloha, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.⁴ But to him who worketh, his wages are not reckoned to him as of favour, but as that which is owing to him:⁵ but to him who worketh not, but believeth only in him who justifieth sinners, his faith is reckoned to him for righteousness.⁶ As also David hath spoken concerning the blessedness of the man to whom Aloha reckoneth righteousness without works, saying,⁷ Blessed are they whose iniquity is forgiven, And whose sins are covered.⁸ Blessed is the man to whom Aloha reckoneth not his sin.

⁹ Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcision (only), or upon the uncircumcision (also) ? Now we have said, that his faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.¹⁰ When, then, was it reckoned to him ? In circumcision or in uncircumcision ? It was not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.¹¹ For he received the sign of circumcision (as) a seal of the righteousness of his faith, which (was his) in uncircumcision, that he should be the father of all them who believe of the uncircumcision; that it might be accounted also to them for righteousness:¹² and the father of the circumcision, not of them who are of the circumcision only, but of them who pursue [fn] the footsteps of the faith of uncircumcision of our father Abraham. ¹³ FOR not through the law was the promise unto Abraham and to his seed that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.¹⁴ For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith would be vain, and the promise be abolished.¹⁵ For the law is the worker of wrath. For where there is no law, there also is no transgression of the law.¹⁶ Therefore it is by faith, which is through grace, that we are justified, that the promise might be firm unto all his seed; not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have ordained thee the father of many nations before Aloha, in whom thou hast believed, who maketh alive the dead, and calleth those who are not as though they were:)¹⁸ and who, without hope, unto hope believed that he should be the father of many nations, as it is written, that " so shall be thy seed."¹⁹ Nor was he weak in his faith, while considering his body dead, (for he was the son of an hundred years,) and the dead womb of Sara;²⁰ and at the promise of Aloha he wavered not as deficient in faith, but was strong in faith, and gave glory to Aloha;²¹ and was sure that what he had promised to him Aloha could fulfil.²² Wherefore it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

²³ And not for his sake only was this written, that his faith was reckoned for righteousness,²⁴ but for our sake, because it should be reckoned to us also who believe in Him who hath raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead;²⁵ who was delivered for our sins, and rose that he might justify us.