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4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?

² For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;

³ for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

⁴ Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:

⁵ but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.

⁶ Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:

⁷ Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:

⁸ blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

⁹ [Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

¹⁰ How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;

¹² and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.

¹³ For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.

¹⁵ For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,

¹⁷ (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;

¹⁸ who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

¹⁹ and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

²⁰ and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;

²¹ and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

²² wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

²³ Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴ but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,

²⁵ who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

5 Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

² by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

⁴ and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

⁵ and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

⁶ for we being still without strength, in [the] due time Christ has died for [the] ungodly.

⁷ For scarcely for [the] just [man] will one die, for perhaps for [the] good [man] some one might also dare to die;

⁸ but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

⁹ Much rather therefore, having been now justified in [the power of] his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

¹⁰ For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in [the power of] his life.

¹¹ And not only [that], but [we are] making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

¹² For this [cause], even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³ (for until law sin was in [the] world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

¹⁴ but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is [the] figure of him to come.

¹⁵ But [shall] not the act of favour [be] as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which [is] by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

¹⁶ And [shall] not as by one that has sinned [be] the gift? For the judgment [was] of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷ For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

¹⁸ so then as [it was] by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

¹⁹ For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

²⁰ But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

²¹ in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of] death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.