1. What then can we say that Abraham found, our ancestor according to the flesh?
2. Indeed, if Abraham was justified on the basis of his works, he has reason to boast; but this was not so in the sight of God.
3. For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
4. A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.
5. But when one does not work, yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6. So also David declares the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7. “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgivenand whose sins are covered.
8. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not record.”
9. Does this blessedness apply only to the circumcised, or to the uncircumcised as well? Now we assert that “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”
10. Under what circumstances was it credited? Was he circumcised or not? He was not circumcised, but uncircumcised.