⁵But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

⁶As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works:

⁷Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.

⁸Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

⁹This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

¹⁰How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

¹²And he might be the father of circumcision; not to them only that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faith that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

¹³For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

¹⁴For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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,

¹⁷(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations), before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

¹⁸Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

²⁰In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

²¹Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

²²And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

²³Now it is not written only for him. that it was reputed to him unto justice,

²⁴But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁵Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.

Chapter 5

Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

²By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

³And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

⁴And patience trial; and trial hope;

⁵And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

⁶For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

⁷For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

⁸But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

⁹Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

¹⁰For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

¹¹And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

¹²Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

¹³For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

¹⁴But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

¹⁵But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

¹⁶And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷For if by one man’s offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to condemnation: so also by the justice of one, unto all men to justification of life.

¹⁹For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.

²⁰Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

²¹That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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