Living_Oracles(i)
3 For what says the scripture? "And Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
4 Now, to him who works, the reward is not counted as a favor, but as a debt.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 In like manner, also, David describes 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 count sin."
9 Does this blessedness come, then, on the circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision, also? for we affirm that faith was counted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How, then, was it counted? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the mark of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith, which he had whilst uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all uncircumcised believers, that righteousness might be counted even to them.
12 And a father to the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had whilst in uncircumcision.
13 For the promise to Abraham, that he should be the heir of a world, was not to him, nor to his seed, through law; but through a righteousness of faith.