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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.