27 Where, then, is boasting?(A) It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.(B) 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,(C) 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.(D) 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

Abraham Justified by Faith

What then shall we say(E) that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh,(F) discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God.(G) What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a](H)

Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:3 Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22

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