Romans 4:1-8 ▼

1 What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before God;

3 for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

4 and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

5 and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:

6 even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

7 'Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

8 happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'