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4:1What
then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the
flesh? 4:2For
if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but
not toward God. 4:3For
what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted
to him for righteousness." 4:4Now
to him who works, the reward is not accounted as of grace, but as of debt. 4:5But
to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly,
his faith is accounted for righteousness. 4:6Even
as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness
apart from works,
4:7"Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
Whose sins are covered.
4:8Blessed
is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
4:9Is
this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised
also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 4:10How
then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 4:11He
received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father
of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness
might also be accounted to them. 4:12The
father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but
who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he
had in uncircumcision. 4:13For
the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world
wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 4:14For
if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise
is made of no effect. 4:15For
the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. 4:16For
this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end
that the promise may be sure 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. 4:17As
it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the
presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and
calls the things that are not, as though they were. 4:18Who
in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father
of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your
seed be." 4:19Without
being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having
been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of
Sarah's womb. 4:20Yet,
looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew
strong through faith, giving glory to God, 4:21and
being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 4:22Therefore
it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness." 4:23Now
it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 4:24but
for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who
raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, 4:25who
was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. |