Romans - Chapter 4 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
  • 2. For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath {cf15I whereof} to glory; but not before God.
  • 3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
  • 4. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
  • 5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
  • 6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
  • 7. {cf15I Saying}, Blessed {cf15I are} they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
  • 8. Blessed {cf15I is} the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
  • 9. {cf15I Cometh} this blessedness then upon the circumcision {cf15I only}, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
  • 10. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
  • 11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which {cf15I 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:
  • 12. 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 {cf15I he had} being {cf15I yet} uncircumcised.
  • 13. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, {cf15I was} not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
  • 14. For if they which are of the law {cf15I be} heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
  • 15. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {cf15I there is} no transgression.
  • 16. Therefore {cf15I it is} of faith, that {cf15I it might be} by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
  • 17. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, {cf15I even} God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
  • 18. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
  • 19. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
  • 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
  • 21. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
  • 22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
  • 23. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
  • 24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
  • 25. Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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