Romans 4:1-12 - Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness

¹ What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found? ² For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God. ³ For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

⁴ Now to the man being employed, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to obligation. ⁵ But to the man not being employed, but who believes in him who makes the impious man righteous, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

⁶ Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works,

⁷ saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ Blessed is a man to whom the Lord does, no, not impute sin.

⁹ Is this blessedness therefore upon men of circumcision, or also upon men of uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. ¹⁰ How then was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of his faith during uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those who believe during uncircumcision (for righteousness to also be imputed to them), ¹² and father of those of circumcision, to those not only of circumcision, but also to those who march in the steps of faith--of that during the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.