¹What then shall we say that Abraham our  ²forefather according to the flesh has found?

For if Abraham was justified out of  ¹works, he has something to boast in, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? “And Abraham  ¹believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness.”

Now to the  ¹one who works, his  ²wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to what is due.

But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness.

Even as David also speaks blessing on the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:

"Blessed are they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall by no means account sin.”

Is this blessing then upon the circumcision only, or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say, Faith was accounted to Abraham as righteousness.

How then was it accounted? While he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

And he received the  ¹sign of circumcision, a seal of the  ²righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those in uncircumcision who believe, that righteousness might be accounted to them also,

And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also  ¹walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

For it was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham or to his seed that he would be the  ¹heir of the world, but through the  ²righteousness of faith.

For if those of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been annulled;

For the law works out wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Therefore the inheritance is out of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise may be certain to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the  ¹father of us all

(As it is written, “I have appointed you a father of many nations”) in the sight of God whom he  ¹believed, who  ²gives life to the dead and  ³calls the things not being as being.

He beyond hope believed  ¹in hope in order that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, “So shall your seed be.”

And not weakening in his faith, he considered his own body as  ¹already dead, being about a hundred years old, as well as the deadening of Sarah's womb;

But with regard to the promise of God, he did not doubt in unbelief, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God

And being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able also to do.

Therefore also it was accounted to him as righteousness.

Now it was not written for his sake only that it was accounted to him,

But for ours also to whom it is to be accounted, who believe on  ¹Him who has raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Who was delivered for our offenses and was  ¹raised for our justification.

Therefore having been justified out of faith, we have peace  ¹toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Through whom also we have obtained access by  ¹faith into this  ²grace in which we  ³stand and  ⁴boast because of the  ⁵hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we also boast in our  ¹tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces  ²endurance;

And endurance,  ¹approvedness; and approvedness, hope;

And hope does not put us to shame, because the  ¹love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

For while we were yet  ¹weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die.

But God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, having now been justified in His blood, we will be saved through Him from the wrath.

For if we, being enemies, were  ¹reconciled to God through the death of His Son,  ²much more we will be  ³saved  ⁴in His  ⁵life, having been reconciled,

And not only so, but also  ¹boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Therefore just as through  ¹one man  ²sin entered into the  ³world, and through sin, death; and thus  ⁴death passed on to all men because all have sinned —

For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not  ¹charged to one's account when there is no law.

But  ¹death reigned from  ²Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's  ³transgression, who is a  ⁴type of Him who was to come.

But it is not that as the offense was, so also the gracious gift is; for if by the offense of the one the many died, much more the grace of God and the free gift in grace of the one  ¹man Jesus Christ have  ²abounded to the many.

And it is not that as through one who sinned, so also the free  ¹gift is; for the judgment was out of one offense unto condemnation, but the gracious gift is out of many offenses unto justification.

For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the  ¹abundance of grace and of the gift of  ²righteousness will  ³reign in  ⁴life through the One, Jesus Christ.

So then as it was through one offense unto condemnation to all men, so also it was through one  ¹righteous act unto justification of  ²life to all men.

For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were  ¹constituted sinners, so also through the  ²obedience of the One the many will be  ¹constituted righteous.

And the law entered in alongside that the offense might abound; but where sin  ¹abounded, grace has super-abounded,

In order that just as  ¹sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through  ²righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Absolutely not! We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been  ¹baptized into  ²Christ Jesus have been  ¹baptized into  ³His death?

We have been  ¹buried therefore with Him through  ²baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the  ³glory of the Father, so also we might  ⁴walk in newness of life.

For if we have  ¹grown together with Him in the  ²likeness of His death, indeed we will also be  ³in the  ²likeness of His resurrection,

 ¹Knowing this, that our  ²old man has been  ³crucified with Him in order that the  ⁴body of sin might be  ⁵annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;

For he who has died is justified from  ¹sin.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live  ¹with Him,

Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies  ¹no more; death lords it over Him no more.

For the death which He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life which He lives, He lives to God.

So also you,  ¹reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

 ¹Do not let sin therefore reign in your mortal body so that you obey  ²the body's lusts;

Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but  ¹present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as  ²weapons of righteousness to God.

For sin will not  ¹lord it over you,  ²for you are  ³not under the law but under grace.

What then? Should we sin, because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves you are whom you obey, whether of sin  ¹unto death or of obedience  ¹unto righteousness?

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which you were delivered.

And having been  ¹freed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness  ¹unto  ²sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

What fruit then did you have at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death.

But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto  ¹sanctification, and the end, eternal  ²life.

For the  ¹wages of sin is  ²death, but the gift of God is  ³eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.