1What then shall we say that Abraham our forefather has found according to the sarx(flesh)?
2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a basis for boasting — but not before God.
3For what does the graphe(written-scripture) say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as dikaiosyne(righteousness)."
4Now to the one who works, the wage is not credited according to charis(grace) but according to what is owed;
5but to the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as dikaiosyne(righteousness) —
6just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits dikaiosyne(righteousness) apart from works:
7"Blessed are those whose anomia(Torah-lessness) have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered;
8blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will by no means credit."
9Is this blessedness then upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham as dikaiosyne(righteousness)."
10How then was it credited? While he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision.
11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the dikaiosyne(righteousness) of faith that he had while in uncircumcision, so that he might be the father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, so that righteousness might be credited to them also,
12and the father of circumcision — not only to those who are of circumcision but also to those who walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had while in uncircumcision.
13For the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he would be heir of the world was not through nomos(law) but through the dikaiosyne(righteousness) of faith.
14For if those who are of nomos(law) are heirs, faith has been emptied and the promise has been nullified;
15for the nomos(law) produces orge(wrath) — but where there is no nomos(law), there is also no transgression.
16Therefore it is from faith, so that it may be according to charis(grace), in order that the promise may be certain for all the seed — not only to the one who is of the nomos(law) but also to the one who is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17as it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations" — in the presence of Him whom he believed, God who gives zoe(life) to the dead and calls the things that are not as though they are.
18Who, against elpis(hope) in elpis(hope), believed, so that he might become the father of many nations according to what had been said: "So shall your seed be."
19And without becoming weak in faith, he did not consider his own body as already having been deadened — being about a hundred years old — nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.
20But with regard to the promise of God, he did not diakrino(middle, passive: waver, doubt) in unbelief but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21and being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was also able to do.
22Therefore it was also credited to him as dikaiosyne(righteousness).
23Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was credited to him,
24but also for our sake, to whom it is about to be credited — to those who believe in Him who raised Yeshua(Jesus) our Lord from the dead,
25who was delivered up because of our transgressions and was raised because of our justification.