1. What, then, shall we say Aḇraham our father, to have found, according to the flesh?
2. For if Aḇraham was declared right by works, he has ground for boasting, but not before Elohim.
3. For what does the Scripture say? “Aḇraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.”
4. And to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned as a favour but as a debt.
5. And to him who is not working but believes on Him who is declaring right the wicked, his belief is reckoned for righteousness,
6. even as Dawiḏ also says of the blessedness of the man to whom Elohim reckons righteousness without works:
7. “Blessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered,
8. blessed is the man to whom יהוה shall by no means reckon sin.”
9. Is this blessing then upon the circumcised only, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we affirm: Belief was reckoned unto Aḇraham for righteousness.
10. How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the belief while in uncircumcision, for him to be a father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them also,
12. and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the belief which our father Aḇraham had in uncircumcision.