Romans 4:1-12 ▼

1 What shall we saye then that Abraham oure father as pertayninge to ye flesshe dyd finde?

2 If Abraham were iustified by dedes the hath he wherin to reioyce: but not with god.

3 For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleved god and it was counted vnto him for rightewesnes.

4 To him that worketh is the rewarde not reckened of favour: but of duty.

5 To him that worketh not but beleveth on him that iustifieth the vngodly is his fayth counted for rightewesnes.

6 Even as David describeth the blessedfulnes of the man vnto whom god ascribeth rihgtewesnes without dedes.

7 Blessed are they whose vnrightewesnes are forgeven and whose synnes are covered.

8 Blessed is that ma to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.

9 Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcised or vpon the vncircucised? We saye verely how that fayth was rekened to Abraham for rightewesnes.

10 How was it rekened? in the tyme of circumcision? or in the tyme before he was circumcised? Not in tyme of circucision: but when he was yet vncircumcised.

11 And he receaved the signe of circumcision as a seale of yt rightewesnes which is by fayth which fayth he had yet beynge vncircucised: that he shuld be the father of all them that beleve though they be not circumcised that rightewesnes myght be imputed to them also:

12 and that he myght be the father of the circumcised not because they are circumcised only: but because they walke also in the steppes of that fayth yt was in oure father Abraham before the tyme of circumcision.