Romans 3:27-4:8
New American Standard Bible
27 Where then is (A)boasting? It has been excluded. By (B)what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 [a]For (C)we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works [b]of the Law. 29 Or (D)is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed (E)God (F)who will justify the [c]circumcised [d]by faith and the [e]uncircumcised through faith (G)is one.
31 Do we then nullify [f]the Law through faith? (H)Far from it! On the contrary, we (I)establish the Law.
Abraham’s Justification by Faith
4 What then shall we say that Abraham, [g]our forefather (J)according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified [h]by works, he has something to boast about; but (K)not [i]before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “(L)Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who (M)works, the wages are not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but (N)believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “(O)Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.
8 (P)Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not (Q)take into account.”
Footnotes
- Romans 3:28 One early ms Therefore
- Romans 3:28 Or of law
- Romans 3:30 Lit circumcision
- Romans 3:30 Lit out of
- Romans 3:30 Lit uncircumcision
- Romans 3:31 Or law
- Romans 4:1 Or our forefather, has found according to the flesh
- Romans 4:2 Lit out of
- Romans 4:2 Lit toward
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