Romans 4:1-12 - Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness
1 What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God. 3 For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.
4 And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt. 5 And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice.
6 As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works,
7 Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered. 8 A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.
9 This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice. 10 How then was it reckoned? to him being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them: 12 And father of circumcision to them not of circumcision only, but also to them, walking in order in the tracks of the uncircumcision, of the faith of our father Abraham.