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What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

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For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride but not before God.

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But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

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Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.

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But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.

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As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

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Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.

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Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

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Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

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How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

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And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account

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And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.