45:003:025 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in
his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission
of
sins
that are past, through the forbearance of God;
45:003:026 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he
might
be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus.
45:003:027 Where is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law? of works?
Nay:
but by the law of faith.
45:003:028 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without
the
deeds of the law.
45:003:029 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not
also of the
Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
45:003:030 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify
the circumcision by
faith,
and uncircumcision through faith.
45:003:031 Do we then make void the law through faith?
God forbid: yea,
we
establish the law.
45:004:001 What shall we say then that Abraham our
father, as pertaining
to
the flesh, hath found?
45:004:002 For if Abraham were justified by works,
he hath whereof to
glory;
but not before God.
45:004:003 For what saith the scripture? Abraham
believed God, and it was
counted
unto him for righteousness.
45:004:004 Now to him that worketh is the reward not
reckoned of grace,
but
of debt.
45:004:005 But to him that worketh not, but believeth
on him that
justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness.
45:004:006 Even as David also describeth the blessedness
of the man, unto
whom
God imputeth righteousness without works,
45:004:007 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities
are forgiven, and
whose
sins are covered.
45:004:008 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
45:004:009 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision
only, or
upon
the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was
reckoned
to Abraham for righteousness.
45:004:010 How was it then reckoned? when he was in
circumcision, or in
uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
45:004:011 And he received the sign of circumcision,
a seal of the
righteousness
of the faith which he had yet being
uncircumcised:
that he might be the father of all them that
believe,
though they be not circumcised; that righteousness
might
be imputed unto them also:
45:004:012 And the father of circumcision to them
who are not of the
circumcision
only, but who also walk in the steps of that
faith
of our father Abraham, which he had being yet
uncircumcised.


