1. What then shall we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, has found?
2. If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3. What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4. Now to him who works, wages are not given as a gift, but as a debt.
5. But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6. Even David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness without works:
7. “Blessed are thosewhose iniquities are forgiven,and whose sins are covered;
8. blessed is the manto whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
9. Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? We are saying that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.