Romans 4:1-8 ▼

1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a ground of boasting, but not before God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”

4 Now to the one working, the wage is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

5 But to the one not working but believing on the One justifying the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness,

6 just as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:

7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

8 blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall never reckon sin.”