1. So then, what shall we say that Abraham had achieved, who is our father according to the flesh?
2. For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have glory, but not with God.
3. For what does Scripture say? "Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice."
4. But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.
5. Yet truly, for he who does not work, but who believes in him who justifies the impious, his faith is reputed unto justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.
6. Similarly, David also declares the blessedness of a man, to whom God brings justice without works:
7. "Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin."
9. Does this blessedness, then, remain only in the circumcised, or is it even in the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reputed to Abraham unto justice.