⁶ Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

⁶ He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

³ For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

⁴ Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.

⁵ But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

²⁴ but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

²¹ and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

²² Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

⁹ Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰ How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ 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 who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

¹⁹ namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

²⁰ We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

²¹ For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

³² Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

³³ even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

⁹ So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.