Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶ Just as David also says [in Ps 32:1-2] as to the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: ⁷ “Blessed are the ones whose lawless-deeds were forgiven and whose sins were covered. ⁸ Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count”.

This Occurred Prior To Circumcision

⁹ So is this blessedness upon the circumcised, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say “Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness”. ¹⁰ How then was it credited— to one being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision! ¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of ^[a] faith while in uncircumcision, so that he might be^[b] the father of all the ones believing through uncircumcision— so that righteousness might be credited also to them— ¹² and the father of the circumcised to the ones not of circumcision only, but indeed the ones walking-in-line in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while he was in uncircumcision.

The Promise Was Not Through The Law But Faith, Making It Firm To All

¹³ For the promise to Abraham or to his seed^[c] that he should be the inheritor of the world was not through the Law^[d], but through the righteousness of faith!