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1 What then can we say that Abraham our ancestor discovered in the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was made righteous as a result of works, he has a right to boast; but not towards God.
3 For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
4 Now to the one that is working, wages are not credited as undeserved favor but as a debt.
5 But to the person that is not working, but is believing in the One that justifies the ungodly, his faith [the act of believing] is credited as righteousness.
6 Just as David also describes the blessedness of the person, to whom God credits righteousness apart from works,
7 Blessed [are] those whose violations of the law have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.
8 Blessed [is] the man whose sin the Lord will never [double negative] take into account.
9 Is this blessedness then for the circumcised, or for the uncircumcised also? We said that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had] while uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those that believe, though they are not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also:
12 And the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but also walk in the steps of the faith that our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, [was] not made to Abraham, or his offspring, via the agency of the law, but via the righteousness [that comes from] faith.
14 For if those who come from the law [are] heirs, faith is devalued, and the promise made useless:
15 Because the law produces [God's] vengeance [orge]: for where there is no law, [there is] no sinful failure.
16 Therefore it originates from faith, that [it might be] by grace; and as a result, the promise might be guaranteed to all of the offspring; not only to those originating from the law but to those also who come from the faith of Abraham; who is the father of every one of us,
17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before Him in whom he believed, [namely] God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things that do not exist as though they do.
18 Who without hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what had been said, This is how your offspring will be.
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19 And not being weak in faith, he did not take into account the fact that his own body was now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, and also the deadness of Sara's womb:
20 He did not question the promise of God through lack of faith; but was bold in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was also able to carry out.
22 And therefore it was credited to him as righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his benefit only, that it was credited to him;
24 But for our benefit also, to whom it will be credited, if we believe in Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was handed over because of our sins, and was raised again for our justification.