1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he has reason to glory in himself, but not before God.
3. For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4. But unto him that works, the reward is not reckoned as grace, but as debt.
5. But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.
6. Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God doth attribute righteousness without works,
7. saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute sin.
9. Is this blessedness, therefore, only upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.