1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to glory in; but not toward God. 3For what says the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. 4Now to the one who works, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. 5But to the one not working, but believing in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. 6Even as David also pronounces blessing upon the man, to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works, 7saying, Blessed are they whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered. 8Blessed is the man to whom Yehovah will not reckon sin. 9Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness. 10How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision: 11and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all those believing, though they are in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them; 12and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision. 13For not through the Torah was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith. 14For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is nullified: 15for the Torah works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression. 16For this reason it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; so that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the Torah, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17(as it is written, A father of many nations I have made you) before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. 18Who in hope believed against hope, so that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall your seed be. 19And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb; 20yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22Therefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness. 23Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him; 24but for our sake also, to whom it shall be reckoned, those believing in him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead, 25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.