1 What then shall we say
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.”
4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited according to grace, but according to his due.
5 But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,
6 just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed
8 Blessed
9 Therefore,
10 How then was it credited?
11 And he received the sign of circumcision
12 and the father
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants,
14 For if those of the law
15 For the law produces wrath, but where
16 Because of this,
17 (just as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”)
18 who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, “so will your descendants be.”
19 And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body already as good as dead,
20 And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God
21 and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.
22 Therefore, indeed, it was credited to him for righteousness.
23 But it was not written for the sake of him alone that it was credited to him,
24 but also for the sake of us to whom it is going to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was handed over on account of our trespasses, and was raised up in the interest of our justification.