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Chapter 4
(Romans 4 KJV) "What shall we say then that Abraham our
father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? {2} For if Abraham were
justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. {3}
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted
unto him for righteousness. {4} Now to him that worketh is the reward
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. {5} But to him that worketh not, but
believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness. {6} Even as David also
describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
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} Cometh this
blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision
also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
{10} How was it then reckoned? when he was 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 which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father
of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that
righteousness might be imputed unto them also: {12} And the father of
circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also
walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had
being yet uncircumcised. {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 they which are of
the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none
effect: {15} Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there
is no transgression. {16} Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end the promise might 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, {17} (As it is written, I have
made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be 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 thy seed be. {19} And being not weak in faith, he considered
not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: {20} He staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God; {21} And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he
was able also to perform. {22} And therefore it was imputed to him for
righteousness. {23} Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it
was imputed to him; {24} But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed,
if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; {25}
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our
justification."
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