DRC - Romans - 4

4:1  What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh?

4:2  For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

4:3  For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.

4:4  Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt.

4:5  But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

4:6  As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works:

4:7  Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.

4:8  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

4:9  This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

4:10  How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

4:11  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

4:12  And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

4:13  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 justice of faith.

4:14  For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

4:15  For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

4:16  Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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,

4:17  (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

4:18  Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

4:19  And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

4:20  In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

4:21  Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

4:22  And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

4:23  Now it is not written only for him. that it was reputed to him unto justice,

4:24  But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

4:25  Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.