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3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not accounted according to grace but according to debt.
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins were covered over;
8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall by no means impute sin."
9 Does this blessing then come upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, 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 while in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those that believe, although uncircumcised, so that righteousness should also be imputed to them,
12 and the father of circumcision to those not only of circumcision, but also to those following in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while in uncircumcision.
13 For the promise that he should be 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 has been nullified,
15 because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith that it may be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17 (just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the One who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;