B.
The example
4:1-25
Rom. 4
:1
4:1
1What then shall we say that Abraham our
2forefather according to the flesh has found?
Rom. 4
:2
4:2
For if Abraham was justified out of
1works, he has something to boast in, but not before God.
Rom. 4
:3
4:3
For what does the Scripture say?
a"And Abraham
1believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness.''
Rom. 4
:4
4:4
Now to the
1one who
aworks, his
2wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to what is due.
Rom. 4
:5
4:5
But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness.
Rom. 4
:6
4:6
Even as David also speaks blessing on the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:
Rom. 4
:7
4:7
a"Blessed are they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.
Rom. 4
:8
4:8
aBlessed is the man to whom the Lord shall by no means account sin.''
Rom. 4
:9
4:9
Is this blessing then upon the circumcision
only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was accounted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom. 4
:10
4:10
How then was it accounted? While he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom. 4
:11
4:11
And he
areceived the
1sign of circumcision, a seal of the
2righteousness of the faith which
he had while in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those in uncircumcision who believe, that righteousness might be accounted to them also,
Rom. 4
:12
4:12
And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also
1awalk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which
he had in uncircumcision.
Rom. 4
:13
4:13
For it was not through the law
that athe promise
was made to Abraham or to his seed
bthat he would be the
1heir of the world, but through the
2righteousness of faith.
Rom. 4
:14
4:14
For aif those of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been annulled;
Rom. 4
:15
4:15
For athe law works out wrath; but
bwhere there is no law, neither is there transgression.
Rom. 4
:16
4:16
Therefore the inheritance is out of faith that
it might be according to
agrace, so that the promise may be certain to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the
1father of us all
Rom. 4
:17
4:17
(As it is written,
a"I have appointed you a father of many nations'') in the sight of God whom he
1believed,
bwho 2gives life to the dead and
3calls the things not being as being.
Rom. 4
:18
4:18
He beyond hope believed
1in hope in order that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
a"So shall your seed be.''
Rom. 4
:19
4:19
And not weakening in his faith, he considered his own body as
1aalready dead,
bbeing about a hundred years old, as well as the
cdeadening of Sarah's womb;
Rom. 4
:20
4:20
But with regard to the promise of God, he did not doubt in unbelief, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God
Rom. 4
:21
4:21
And being fully persuaded that
awhat He had promised He was able also to do.
Rom. 4
:22
4:22
Therefore also it was accounted to him as righteousness.
Rom. 4
:23
4:23
Now it was not written for his sake only that it was accounted to him,
Rom. 4
:24
4:24
But for ours also to whom it is to be accounted, who believe on
1Him who has raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Rom. 4
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4:25
Who was delivered for our offenses and was
1raised afor our justification.
