1What then shall we say that Abraham our forefather according to the flesh has found?2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast, but not before God.3For what does the writing say? Abraham trusted God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.4Now to the one who works, the wage is not counted according to grace but according to debt.5But to the one who does not work, yet trusts in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.6Just as David also says concerning the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:7Blessed are those whose lawless acts were forgiven and whose sins were covered.8Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count sin.9This blessedness therefore is upon the circumcised or also upon the uncircumcised, for we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.10How then was it counted? Was he in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision.11And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe while uncircumcised, so that righteousness might be counted to them.12And he is the father of the circumcised to those who are not merely of the circumcision but also to those who follow the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had while uncircumcised.13For the promise to Abraham or to his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified.15For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law there is also no transgression.16For this reason it depends on faith, in order that it may be according to grace, so that the promise may be guaranteed to all the offspring, not only to the one who is of the law but also to the one who is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.17As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations before God in whom he trusted, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.18In hope he trusted against hope that he would become the father of many nations, according to what had been said, So shall your offspring be.19He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, already as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the deadness of Sarah's womb.20No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God.21Fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.22Therefore it was counted to him as righteousness.23But the words it was counted to him were not written for his sake alone.24But also for ours. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.25He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.