4. But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.
5. Yet truly, for he who does not work, but who believes in him who justifies the impious, his faith is reputed unto justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.
6. Similarly, David also declares the blessedness of a man, to whom God brings justice without works:
7. "Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin."
9. Does this blessedness, then, remain only in the circumcised, or is it even in the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reputed to Abraham unto justice.
10. But then how was it reputed? In circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11. For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,
12. and he might be the father of circumcision, not only for those who are of circumcision, but even for those who follow the footsteps of that faith which is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
13. For the Promise to Abraham, and to his posterity, that he would inherit the world, was not through the law, but through the justice of faith.
14. For if those who are of the law are the heirs, then faith becomes empty and the Promise is abolished.