Romans 4:4-16

4Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

5but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

6Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom 1God reckons righteousness without works:

7Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

8blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

9[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

10How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

11And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

12and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

13For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

14For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

15For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

16Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,