^{3 Ref} for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

^{4 Ref} and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

^{5 Ref} and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:

^{6 Ref} even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

^{7 Ref} `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

^{8 Ref} happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

^{9 Ref} `Is' this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?

^{10 Ref} how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

^{11 Ref} and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

^{12 Ref} and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

^{13 Ref} For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

^{14 Ref} for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

^{15 Ref} for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

^{16 Ref} Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

^{17 Ref} who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.