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.
11. And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal on the righteousness received through faith while he was uncircumcised. Thus he was to be the father of all the uncircumcised who believe, so that to them [also] righteousness might be credited,