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Romans 4

CHAPTER 4 Abraham Justified by Trusting

1 What then shall we say Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham [²of ³works ¹was justified], he has boasting, but not towards God. 3 For what does the scripture say? [³trusted ¹But ²Abraham] in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness. 4 And to the one working, the wage is not considered according to favor, but according to the debt. 5 But to the one not working, but trusts upon the one justifying the impious, [²is imputed ¹his belief] for righteousness. 6 Just as also David says about the blessing of the man to whom God imputes righteousness separate from works. 7 Blessed whom [³were forgiven ¹the ²lawless deeds], and whom [³were covered over ¹the ²sins]. 8 Blessed is a man in whom in no way the Lord should impute sin. 9 [²blessing ³then ¹Is this] upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say that [³was imputed ⁴to ⁵Abraham ¹the ²belief] for righteousness. 10 How then was it imputed? [²in ³circumcision ¹being], or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And [²the sign ¹he received] of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of the belief of the one in the uncircumcision, for him to be father of all of the ones trusting through uncircumcision, for [³to be imputed ⁴also ⁵to them ¹the ²righteousness]; 12 and father of circumcision to the ones not of circumcision only, but also to the ones conforming to the tracks of the belief to the ones in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

The Promise to Abraham

13 For not through law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, [³heir ¹for him ²to be] of the world, but through righteousness of belief. 14 For if the ones from the law be heirs, [³is empty ¹the ²belief], and [³ceases to work ¹the ²promise]. 15 For the law [²wrath ¹manufactures]; for where there is no law, not even is there a violation. 16 On account of this it is of belief, that according to favor, for the [²to be ³firm ¹promise] to all the seed, not to the one of the law only, but also to the one of belief of Abraham, who is father of all of us, 17 (as it has been written, that, [³father ⁴of many ⁵nations ¹I have established ²you],) in front of which he trusted God, of the one restoring [³to life ¹the ²dead], and calling the ones not being, as being; 18 who against hope [²upon ³hope ¹trusted], for him to become father of many nations; according to the thing being said, So shall [²be ¹your seed]. 19 And not being weak in the belief, he did not contemplate his own body already deadened, [³a hundred years old ²somewhere about ¹being], and the deadening of the womb of Sarah. 20 And at the promise of God he did not examine by unbelief, but was empowered in the belief, giving glory to God, 21 and having full assurance that what he has promised, he is able also to do. 22 Therefore also it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 [²it was not ³written ¹But] on account of him only, that -- it was imputed to him, 24 but also on account of us, to the ones whom it was about to be imputed, to the ones trusting upon the one having raised Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 who was delivered up on account of our transgressions, and was raised on account of our justification.