Romans 4:1-12 ▼

1 What shall we saye then that Abraham our father, as parteynyng to the flesshe, dyd fynde?

2 For if Abraham were iustified by workes, the hath he wherein to boaste, but not before God.

3 For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleued God, and it was counted vnto hym for ryghteousnes.

4 To hym that worketh, is the reward not reckened of grace, but of duetie.

5 To hym that worketh not, but beleueth on hym that iustifieth the vngodly, his fayth is counted for ryghteousnes.

6 Euen as Dauid describeth the blessednesse of the man vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes:

7 Blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesse are forgeuen, & whose sinnes are couered.

8 Blessed is that man to who the Lorde wyll not impute sinne.

9 Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcision, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that fayth was reckened to Abraham for ryghteousnes.

10 Howe was it then reckened? When he was in the circumcision? or whe he was in the vncircumcision? Not in the circumcision: but in vncircumcision.

11 And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also.

12 And that he myght be father of circumcision, not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised: but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham, before the time of circumcision.