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

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

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

⁷ Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

⁸ The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

² God didn't reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don't you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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.

³¹ That was credited to him for righteousness, For all generations to come.

¹¹ For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."

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

²³ Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

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

²⁵ who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! if they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.