Romans 3:27-4:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. Through what kind of law? That of works? No, rather through the law of faith.(A) 28 For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.(B) 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of gentiles also? Yes, of gentiles also, 30 since God is one, and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.(C) 31 Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
The Example of Abraham
4 What then are we to say was gained by[a] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.(D) 3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed[b] God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”(E) 4 Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.(F) 5 But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness. 6 So also David pronounces a blessing on those to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven
and whose sins are covered;(G)
8 blessed is the one against whom the Lord will not reckon sin.”
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