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3 For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that works, the reward is not counted as a favor, but as a debt:
5 but to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without works, saying:
7 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins. are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not charge sin.
9 Comes this blessedness then on those who are circumcised only, or on those who are uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 Under what circumstances, then, was it counted? After he was circumcised? Or, while he was uncircumcised? Not after he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was uncircumcised, in order that he might be the father of all that believe, even in a state of uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be counted to them also;
12 and the father of circumcision to those who are not only circumcised, but who, also, walk in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while he was yet uncircumcised.
13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, nor to his posterity, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.