Chapter 4
- What then shall we say that Abraham
our
father has
found according to the flesh?
- For is Abraham was justified by
works, he has something of which to boast, but not before God.
(Rom. 3:20; Rom. 3:27)
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- Now to him who works, the wages are
not
counted as
grace but as debt. (Rom. 11:6)
- But to him who does not work but
believes
on Him who
justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, (Eph. 2:9)
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- How then was it accounted?
While he was circumcised, or un-circumcised? Not while
circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
- And he received the sign of
circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had
while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who
believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be
imputed to them also, (Gen. 17:10; Luke 19:9)
- and the father of circumcision to
those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the
steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still
uncircumcised. (Ps. 47:9)
- For the promise that he would be
the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the
law,
but through the righteousness of faith. (Gen. 17:4-6; Gen. 22:17; Heb. 7:6)
- For if those who are of the law
are
heirs, faith
is made void and the promise made of no effect, (Gal. 13:18)
- because the law brings about
wrath; for
where there
is no law there is no transgression. (Rom. 3:20; 1 John 3:4)
- Therefore it is of faith that it
might
be according
to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only
to
those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of
Abraham, who is the father of us all (Is. 51:2; Rom.
3:24; Gal. 3:22; Eph.
2:8)
- (as it is written, "I have made
you a
father of many
nations") in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives
life
to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they
did; (Gen. 17:5)
- who, contrary to hope, in hope
believed,
so that
he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So
shall
your descendants be." (Gen.
15:5; Lam.
3:26)
- and not being weak in faith, he
did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a
hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. (Heb. 11:12)
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- Now it was not written for his
sake alone that it was imputed to him, (Rom. 15:4)
- but also for us. It shall be
imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the
dead, (Acts 2:24; Heb.
13:20)
- who was delivered up because of
our offences, and was raised because of our justification. (Is.
53:4&5; 1 Cor. 15:17)
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