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          DASV: Romans 4    

1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according
to the flesh, has found regarding this?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to
boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God,
and it was counted to him for righteousness."
4 Now to the one who works, the reward is not counted as a
gift, but as something owed.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes on him that
justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Just as David also describes the blessing on the one, to
whom God credits with righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
      and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom
      the Lord will not count his sin."

9 Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcision,
or on the uncircumcision as well? For we say, "Faith was
counted to Abraham for righteousness."
10 How then was it credited to him? When he was circumcised, or not?
It was not when he was circumcised, but uncircumcised.
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness
of the faith which he had while he was still uncircumcised;
so that he might become the father of all those who believe,
even though they had not been circumcised, so that righteousness
might be counted to them as well.
12 And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are
circumcised, but who also walk in the steps of the faith that our
father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

13 For the promise to Abraham and to his descendants that he would
inherit the world did not come through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
14 For if they became heirs by means of the law, then faith is
worthless, and the promise negated.
15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, there
is no violation.
16 For this reason it is based on faith, that it may be according
to grace, resulting in the promise being guaranteed to all
his descendants; not only to those who are under the law,
but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is
the father of us all.
17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."
He is our father in the presence of God in whom he believed,
who gives life to the dead, and calls things into existence
that were not, as though they existed.

18 He believed hoping against hope that he would become
"the father of many nations," according to what had been
promised, "So will your descendants be."
19 Without weakening in faith, even when he considered his
own body as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years
old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb,
20 yet he did not waver in unbelief concerning the promise
of God, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God.
21 He was fully convinced that what God had promised, he
was able to do.
22 Therefore it was counted to him as righteousness.
23 Now the statement that "it was counted to him" was not
written for his sake alone,
24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be counted, who
believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25 He was handed over to death for our trespasses and was
raised for our justification.

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