Romans 4:1-6

Goodspeed(i) 1 Then what are we to say about our ancestor Abraham? 2 For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God, 3 for what does the Scripture say? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness." 4 Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation, 5 but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness. 6 So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,