Romans 4:7-25 ▼

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.”

9 Is this blessedness, then, on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we are saying faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

10 How then was it reckoned—being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while in the uncircumcision, for him to be father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness to be reckoned also to them,

12 and father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those walking in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham in uncircumcision.

13 For not through law was the promise to Abraham or his seed for him to be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if those of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been nullified.

15 For the law brings about wrath; and where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

16 Because of this it is of faith, so that it may be according to grace for the promise to be sure to all the seed, not only to that of the law, but also to that of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

17 (as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you”) before Him whom he believed—God, the One making alive the dead and calling existing the things not as existing—

18 who against hope in hope believed, for him to become the father of many nations, according to that having been spoken, “So will your seed be.”

19 And not having become weak in the faith, he considered his body already having become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

20 Yet he did not doubt in unbelief in the promise of God, but was empowered in faith, having given glory to God,

21 and having been fully assured that what He has promised, He is also able to do.

22 Therefore also “it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”

23 Now it was not written because of him alone that “it was reckoned to him,”

24 but also because of us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to those believing on the One having raised Jesus our Lord out from the dead,

25 who was delivered over because of our trespasses, and was raised because of our justification.