Aug. 23
Romans 4
Rom 4:1 What then will
we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the
flesh?
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham
was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not
toward God.
Rom 4:3 For what does
the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted
to him for righteousness."
Rom 4:4 Now to him who
works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt.
Rom 4:5 But to him who
doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his
faith is accounted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6 Even as David
also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness
apart from works,
Rom 4:7 "Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8 Blessed is the
man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.
Rom 4:9 Is this
blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised
also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for
righteousness.
Rom 4:10 How then was
it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:11 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.
Rom 4:12 The father of
circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who
also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he
had in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:13 For the
promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the
world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:14 For if those
who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is
made of no effect.
Rom 4:15 For the law
works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there
disobedience.
Rom 4:16 For this cause
it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that
the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of
the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is
the father of us all.
Rom 4:17 As it is
written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This
is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to
the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Rom 4:18 Who in hope
believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of
many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will
your seed be."
Rom 4:19 Without being
weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having
been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the
deadness of Sarah's womb.
Rom 4:20 Yet, looking
to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew
strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Rom 4:21 and being
fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Rom 4:22 Therefore it
also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
Rom 4:23 Now it was not
written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Rom 4:24 but for our
sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who
raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
Rom 4:25 who was
delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our
justification.