What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?
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Romans 4
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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God,
What then does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Now to the one who works, the wage is not counted as grace but as a debt.
τῷ δὲ μὴ ἐργαζομένῳ, πιστεύοντι δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἀσεβῆ, λογίζεται ἡ πίστις αὐτοῦ εἰς δικαιοσύνην,
But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Just as David also speaks the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works.
Blessed are those whose lawless acts have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered,
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not count sin.
Ὁ μακαρισμὸς οὖν οὗτος ἐπὶ τὴν περιτομὴν ἢ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκροβυστίαν; λέγομεν γάρ· Ἐλογίσθη τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἡ πίστις εἰς δικαιοσύνην.
Is this blessing then on the circumcision or also on the uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
How then was it reckoned? While being circumcised or while uncircumcised? Not while circumcised but while uncircumcised.
καὶ σημεῖον ἔλαβεν περιτομῆς, σφραγῖδα τῆς δικαιοσύνης τῆς πίστεως τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν πατέρα πάντων τῶν πιστευόντων δι' ἀκροβυστίας, εἰς τὸ λογισθῆναι αὐτοῖς τὴν δικαιοσύνην,
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which is in uncircumcision, so that he might be the father of all who believe without circumcision, that righteousness might be credited to them,
καὶ πατέρα περιτομῆς τοῖς οὐκ ἐκ περιτομῆς μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς στοιχοῦσιν τοῖς ἴχνεσιν τῆς ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ πίστεως τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἀβραάμ.
And the father of circumcision to those not from circumcision only, but also to those who follow the footsteps of the faith in uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
Οὐ γὰρ διὰ νόμου ἡ ἐπαγγελία τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἢ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ, τὸ κληρονόμον αὐτὸν εἶναι κόσμου, ἀλλὰ διὰ δικαιοσύνης πίστεως·
For the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he would be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
For if those who are from the law are heirs, faith is emptied and the promise is nullified.
For the law produces wrath, but where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ πίστεως, ἵνα κατὰ χάριν, εἰς τὸ εἶναι βεβαίαν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν παντὶ τῷ σπέρματι, οὐ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ ἐκ πίστεως Ἀβραάμ (ὅς ἐστιν πατὴρ πάντων ἡμῶν,
Therefore, it is by faith, in order that it may be according to grace, to make the promise certain to all the seed, not only to the one from the law but also to the one from the faith of Abraham (who is the father of us all,
καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι Πατέρα πολλῶν ἐθνῶν τέθεικά σε), κατέναντι οὗ ἐπίστευσεν θεοῦ τοῦ ζῳοποιοῦντος τοὺς νεκροὺς καὶ καλοῦντος τὰ μὴ ὄντα ὡς ὄντα·
As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations, in the presence of whom he believed, God who gives life to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they were.
ὃς παρ' ἐλπίδα ἐπ' ἐλπίδι ἐπίστευσεν εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν πατέρα πολλῶν ἐθνῶν κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον· Οὕτως ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα σου·
Who, contrary to hope, in hope believed to become the father of many nations according to what was spoken: So shall your offspring be.
καὶ μὴ ἀσθενήσας τῇ πίστει κατενόησεν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σῶμα νενεκρωμένον, ἑκατονταετής που ὑπάρχων, καὶ τὴν νέκρωσιν τῆς μήτρας Σάρρας,
and without weakening in faith he considered his own body already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
But with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
and being fully assured that what he had promised is able also to do.
Therefore, it was credited to him as righteousness.
It was not written for him alone that it was credited to him,
ἀλλὰ καὶ δι' ἡμᾶς οἷς μέλλει λογίζεσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν ἐγείραντα Ἰησοῦν τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν ἐκ νεκρῶν,
but also for us who are about to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
who was delivered up because of our trespasses and was raised because of our justification.