THE BOOK OF ROMANS

Romans Chapter 4

The doctrine of imputed righteousness.

1 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have a reason to boast; but now he has none before God.

3 For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

4 Now when a man works his wage is not determined by grace, but by debt.

5 However when a man does not work, but trusts in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

6 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works,

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

9 ¶ Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? for we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

10 How then was it credited? when he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not when circumcised, but when uncircumcised.

11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he already had while uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all who believe, yet are not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them:

12 And also the father of the circumcised to those who are not only circumcised, but also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, that he already had before he was circumcised.

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

14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect:

15 Because the law works wrath: for there is no transgression, where there is no law.

16 That is why it is of faith, that it might be by grace; in order that the promise might be sure to all of Abraham’s offspring; not only those who are of the law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) he is our father in the sight of God in whom he believed, God who gives life to the dead, and calls things that are not as though they were.

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be.

19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body now dead, since he was about a hundred years old, or the deadness of Sara’s womb:

20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

21 Being fully persuaded that, what God had promised, he was also able to perform.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

23 ¶ Now the words it was imputed to him, were not written for his sake alone;

24 But also for us, to whom it will be imputed, if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.