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,
12. as well as the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but also follow the path of faith that our father Abraham walked while still uncircumcised.
13. It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith.