Romans 4:1–12

¹What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? ²for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast—but not before god; ³for what doth the writing say? ‘And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;’ ⁴and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; ⁵and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness: ⁶even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: ⁷‘Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; ⁸happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.’

⁹Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision—for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham—to righteousness? ¹⁰how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision; ¹¹and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them, ¹²and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.