Romans 4

1What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?Cross-references: Isa 51:2 · Matt 3:9 · Luke 3:8 · Luke 16:24 · Luke 16:29 · John 8:33 · +10 more

2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.Cross-references: Gen 12:12 · Gen 12:18 · Gen 12:20 · Gen 20:9 · Josh 24:2 · Jer 9:23 · +15 more

3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”Cross-references: Gen 15:6 · Ps 106:31 · Isa 8:20 · Mark 12:10 · Rom 4:5 · Rom 4:9 · +9 more

4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.Cross-references: Matt 20:1 · Rom 9:32 · Rom 11:6 · Rom 11:35

5But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.Cross-references: Josh 24:2 · Hab 2:4 · Zech 3:3 · John 5:24 · John 6:29 · Acts 13:38 · +15 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:Cross-references: Deut 33:29 · Ps 1:1 · Ps 112:1 · Ps 146:5 · Isa 45:24 · Isa 54:17 · +21 more

7“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.Cross-references: Ps 32:1 · Ps 51:8 · Ps 85:2 · Ps 130:3 · Isa 40:1 · Jer 33:8 · +3 more

8Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”Cross-references: Ps 32:2 · Isa 53:10 · 2Cor 5:19 · Phlm 1:18 · 1Pet 2:24 · 1Pet 3:18

9Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.Cross-references: Isa 49:6 · Luke 2:32 · Rom 3:29 · Rom 4:3 · Rom 9:23 · Rom 10:12 · +6 more

10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.Cross-references: Gen 15:5 · Gen 15:16 · Gen 16:1 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 17:10 · Gen 17:23 · +3 more

11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.Cross-references: Gen 17:10 · Ex 12:13 · Ex 31:13 · Ex 31:17 · Deut 30:6 · Ezek 20:12 · +35 more

12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.Cross-references: Job 33:11 · Prov 2:20 · Song 1:8 · Matt 3:9 · Luke 16:23 · John 8:39 · +4 more

13For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Gen 17:4 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 28:14 · Gen 49:10 · +5 more

14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.Cross-references: Num 30:12 · Num 30:15 · Ps 119:126 · Isa 55:11 · Jer 19:7 · Rom 3:31 · +7 more

15For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.Cross-references: Num 32:14 · Deut 29:20 · 2Ki 22:13 · Jer 4:8 · Lam 2:22 · Ezek 7:19 · +20 more

16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, 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.Cross-references: Isa 51:2 · Rom 3:24 · Rom 4:11 · Rom 5:1 · Rom 9:8 · Rom 15:8 · +7 more

17As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.Cross-references: Gen 17:4 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 25:1 · Gen 28:3 · Isa 43:6 · +22 more

18Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”Cross-references: Gen 15:5 · Ruth 1:11 · Prov 13:12 · Ezek 37:11 · Mark 5:35 · Luke 1:18 · +5 more

19Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.Cross-references: Gen 17:17 · Gen 18:11 · Matt 6:30 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 14:31 · Mark 9:23 · +4 more

20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,Cross-references: Num 11:13 · 2Ki 7:2 · 2Ki 7:19 · 2Chr 20:15 · Isa 7:9 · Isa 35:4 · +13 more

21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Ps 115:3 · Jer 32:17 · Jer 32:27 · Matt 19:26 · Luke 1:37 · +7 more

22Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”Cross-references: Rom 4:3 · Rom 4:6

23Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,Cross-references: Rom 15:4 · 1Cor 9:9 · 1Cor 10:6 · 1Cor 10:11 · 2Tim 3:16

24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,Cross-references: Mark 16:16 · John 3:14 · Acts 2:24 · Acts 2:39 · Acts 13:30 · Rom 10:9 · +3 more

25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.Cross-references: Isa 53:5 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:24 · Dan 9:26 · Zech 13:7 · Matt 20:28 · +24 more