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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,
7 "Happy are they whose violations of the Law have been forgiven, whose sins are covered up!
8 Happy is the man whose sin the Lord will take no account of!"