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3 For what does the scriptures say? »Abraham believed Jehovah, and it was counted to him as righteousness.« (Genesis 15:6)
4 The pay is counted to the man who works. It is not as grace but as a debt.
5 He who does not work but believes in him who justifies (absolves) the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 David also pronounces blessing on the man, to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
7 saying: »Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 »Blessed is the man to whom, Jehovah will not impute sin.« (Psalm 32:2)
9 Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say: »To Abraham his faith was counted for righteousness.«
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision:
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was not circumcised. That way he could be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be counted to them.
12 The father of circumcision to those who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of faith of our father Abraham that he had when he was not circumcised.
13 The promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law but through righteousness by faith.