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

stylus

Isaiah 51:2, Isaiah 51:2, Romans 4:16, Romans 4:16, Acts 13:26

2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

stylus

1 Corinthians 1:31, 1 Corinthians 1:31, 2 Corinthians 11:30, 2 Corinthians 11:30, Philippians 3:9

3For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

stylus

Genesis 15:6, Genesis 15:6, James 2:23, James 2:23, Romans 4:9

4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

stylus

Romans 11:6, Romans 11:6, Romans 9:32, Romans 9:32, Matthew 20:1

5But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

stylus

Philippians 3:9, Philippians 3:9, Romans 3:22, Romans 3:22, Titus 3:3

6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

stylus

2 Timothy 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:9, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Philippians 3:9

7"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

stylus

Psalms 32:1, Psalms 32:2, Psalms 32:1, Psalms 32:2, Psalms 130:3

8Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

stylus

Psalms 32:2, Psalms 32:2, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 2:24, 2 Corinthians 5:19

9Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

stylus

Galatians 3:26, Galatians 3:28, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 3:26, Galatians 3:28

10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

stylus

Galatians 6:15, Galatians 6:15, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 5:6, Genesis 16:1

11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

stylus

Romans 3:22, Romans 3:22, Luke 19:9, Luke 19:9, Hebrews 11:7

12The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

stylus

Proverbs 2:20, Song of Solomon 1:8, John 8:39, John 8:40, Proverbs 2:20

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

stylus

Galatians 3:29, Galatians 3:29, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:18, Genesis 22:17

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

stylus

Philippians 3:9, Galatians 3:18, Galatians 3:24, Philippians 3:9, Galatians 3:18

15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

stylus

Romans 5:13, Romans 5:13, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:10, Romans 3:19

16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

stylus

Romans 3:24, Romans 3:26, Romans 3:24, Romans 3:26, Ephesians 2:8

17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

stylus

1 Corinthians 1:28, 1 Corinthians 1:28, Genesis 17:4, Genesis 17:5, Genesis 17:4

18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

stylus

Romans 8:24, Romans 8:24, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:6, Romans 5:5

19Without being weakened in faith, he considered his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

stylus

Genesis 17:17, Hebrews 11:11, Hebrews 11:19, Genesis 17:17, Hebrews 11:11

20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

stylus

Luke 1:45, Luke 1:45, 2 Corinthians 12:10, 1 Corinthians 16:13, 2 Corinthians 12:10

21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

stylus

Luke 1:37, Luke 1:37, Hebrews 11:19, Jeremiah 32:17, Genesis 18:14

22Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

stylus

Romans 4:3, Romans 4:6, Romans 4:3, Romans 4:6

23Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

stylus

1 Corinthians 10:11, 1 Corinthians 10:11, Romans 15:4, Romans 15:4, 1 Corinthians 10:6

24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

stylus

Acts 2:24, Acts 2:24, 1 Peter 1:21, 1 Peter 1:21, Acts 13:30

25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

stylus

1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, Isaiah 53:5