Romans 4:1–12

¹What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found? ²For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God; ³for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. ⁴Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt: ⁵but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness. ⁶Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works: ⁷Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered: ⁸blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

⁹Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness. ¹⁰How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. ¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also; ¹²and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.