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           HAT shall we 
          say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath 
          found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to 
          glory; but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham 
          believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 4 Now to 
          him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 
          But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the 
          ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also 
          describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth 
          righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose 
          iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the 
          man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 9 Cometh this blessedness 
          then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for 
          we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How 
          was it then reckoned? when he was 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 the 
          faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the 
          father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that 
          righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12 And the father of 
          circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who 
          also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he 
          had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise, that he should be the 
          heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the 
          law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they which are 
          of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none 
          effect: 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there 
          is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by 
          grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to 
          that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith 
          of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have 
          made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even 
          God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as 
          though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might 
          become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, 
          So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered 
          not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, 
          neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: 20 He staggered not at the 
          promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory 
          to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he 
          was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for 
          righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it 
          was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, 
          if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 
          Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our 
          justification.   | ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΥΣ 
        - 4 1 Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν Ἀβραὰμ τὸν πατέρα ἡμῶν εὑρηκέναι κατὰ σάρκα; 2 εἰ γὰρ Ἀβραὰμ ἐξ ἔργων ἐδικαιώθη, ἔχει καύχημα, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν. 3 τί γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ λέγει; ἐπίστευσε δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην. 4 τῷ δὲ ἐργαζομένῳ ὁ μισθὸς οὐ λογίζεται κατὰ χάριν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ ὀφείλημα· 5 τῷ δὲ μὴ ἐργαζομένῳ, πιστεύοντι δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν δικαιοῦντα τὸν ἀσεβῆ λογίζεται ἡ πίστις αὐτοῦ εἰς δικαιοσύνην, 6 καθάπερ καὶ Δαυῒδ λέγει τὸν μακαρισμὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ᾧ ὁ Θεὸς λογίζεται δικαιοσύνην χωρὶς ἔργων· 7 μακάριοι ὧν ἀφέθησαν αἱ ἀνομίαι καὶ ὧν ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι· 8 μακάριος ἀνὴρ ᾧ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται Κύριος ἁμαρτίαν. 9 ὁ μακαρισμὸς οὖν οὗτος ἐπὶ τὴν περιτομὴν ἢ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκροβυστίαν; λέγομεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐλογίσθη τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἡ πίστις εἰς δικαιοσύνην. 10 πῶς οὖν ἐλογίσθη; ἐν περιτομῇ ὄντι ἢ ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ; οὐκ ἐν περιτομῇ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν ἀκροβυστίᾳ· 11 καὶ σημεῖον ἔλαβε περιτομῆς, σφραγῖδα τῆς δικαιοσύνης τῆς πίστεως τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν πατέρα πάντων τῶν πιστευόντων δι᾿ ἀκροβυστίας, εἰς τὸ λογισθῆναι καὶ αὐτοῖς τὴν δικαιοσύνην, 12 καὶ πατέρα περιτομῆς τοῖς οὐκ ἐκ περιτομῆς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς στοιχοῦσι τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ πίστεως τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἀβραάμ. 13 οὐ γὰρ διὰ νόμου ἡ ἐπαγγελία τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἢ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ, τὸ κληρονόμον αὐτὸν εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου, ἀλλὰ διὰ δικαιοσύνης πίστεως. 14 εἰ γὰρ οἱ ἐκ νόμου κληρονόμοι, κεκένωται ἡ πίστις καὶ κατήργηται ἡ ἐπαγγελία· 15 ὁ γὰρ νόμος ὀργὴν κατεργάζεται· οὗ γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι νόμος, οὐδὲ παράβασις. 
16 Διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ πίστεως, ἵνα κατὰ χάριν, εἰς τὸ εἶναι βεβαίαν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν παντὶ τῷ σπέρματι, οὐ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ ἐκ πίστεως Ἀβραάμ, ὅς ἐστι πατὴρ πάντων ἡμῶν, 17 καθὼς γέγραπται ὅτι πατέρα πολλῶν ἐθνῶν τέθεικά σε, κατέναντι οὗ ἐπίστευσε Θεοῦ τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος τοὺς νεκροὺς καὶ καλοῦντος τὰ μὴ ὄντα ὡς ὄντα· 18 ὃς παρ᾿ ἐλπίδα ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι ἐπίστευσεν, εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν πατέρα πολλῶν ἐθνῶν κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον· οὕτως ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα σου· 19 καὶ μὴ ἀσθενήσας τῇ πίστει οὐ κατενόησε τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σῶμα ἤδη νενεκρωμένον, ἑκατονταέτης που ὑπάρχων, καὶ τὴν νέκρωσιν τῆς μήτρας Σάρρας· 20 εἰς δὲ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐ διεκρίθη τῇ ἀπιστίᾳ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐνεδυναμώθη τῇ πίστει, δοὺς δόξαν τῷ Θεῷ 21 καὶ πληροφορηθεὶς ὅτι ὃ ἐπήγγελται δυνατός ἐστι καὶ ποιῆσαι. 22 διὸ καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην. 23 οὐκ ἐγράφη δὲ δι᾿ αὐτὸν μόνον ὅτι ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ, 24 ἀλλὰ καὶ δι᾿ ἡμᾶς οἷς μέλλει λογίζεσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν ἐγείραντα Ἰησοῦν τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν ἐκ νεκρῶν, 25 ὃς παρεδόθη διὰ τὰ παραπτώματα ἡμῶν καὶ ἠγέρθη διὰ τὴν δικαίωσιν ἡμῶν.
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