Abraham Justified by Faith(A)

What then shall we say that (B)Abraham our (C)father[a] has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was (D)justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? (E)“Abraham believed God, and it was [b]accounted to him for righteousness.” Now (F)to him who works, the wages are not counted [c]as grace but as debt.

David Celebrates the Same Truth

But to him who (G)does not work but believes on Him who justifies (H)the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

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  1. Romans 4:1 Or (fore)father according to the flesh has found?
  2. Romans 4:3 imputed, credited, reckoned, counted
  3. Romans 4:4 according to

just as David also (A)describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed(B) are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

Abraham Justified Before Circumcision

Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11 And (C)he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that (D)he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father (E)Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

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The Promise Granted Through Faith

13 For the promise that he would be the (A)heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For (B)if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15 because (C)the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be (D)according to grace, (E)so that the promise might be [a]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, (F)who is the father of us all 17 (as it is written, (G)“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, (H)who gives life to the dead and calls those (I)things which do not exist as though they did;

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  1. Romans 4:16 certain

Faith Triumphs in Trouble

Therefore, (A)having been justified by faith, [a]we have (B)peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (C)through whom also we have access by faith into this grace (D)in which we stand, and (E)rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but (F)we also glory in tribulations, (G)knowing that tribulation produces [b]perseverance; (H)and perseverance, [c]character; and character, hope. (I)Now hope does not disappoint, (J)because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Christ in Our Place

For when we were still without strength, [d]in due time (K)Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But (L)God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified (M)by His blood, we shall be saved (N)from wrath through Him. 10 For (O)if when we were enemies (P)we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved (Q)by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also (R)rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

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  1. Romans 5:1 Some ancient mss. let us have
  2. Romans 5:3 endurance
  3. Romans 5:4 approved character
  4. Romans 5:6 at the right time

So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that (A)Jacob (B)gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For (C)Jews have no dealings with (D)Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the (E)gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you (F)living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but (G)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him (H)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

15 (I)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, (J)I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on (K)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (L)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (M)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (N)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (O)salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will (P)worship the Father in (Q)spirit (R)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 (S)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah (T)is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, (U)He will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, (V)“I who speak to you am He.

The Whitened Harvest

27 And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a Man (W)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, (X)“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to (Y)finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes (Z)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, (AA)for they are already white for harvest! 36 (AB)And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that (AC)both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: (AD)‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; (AE)others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The Savior of the World

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him (AF)because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own (AG)word.

42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for (AH)we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed [a]the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:42 NU omits the Christ

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