What then do we say about Avraham the head of the fathers, that he found in the flesh?

For if Avraham was justified from works, he had ground of boasting; but not toward Elohim.

For what does the writing say? That Avraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

But to the one who works, the wage is not reckoned to him as of favor, but as to one who is owed.

But to him who does not work, but only believes in the one who justifies the sinner, his faith is reckoned to him for righteousness.

Just as Dawid also says of the blessedness of the man to whom Elohim reckons righteousness without works, when he says

Blessed are they whose iniquity is forgiven them, and whose sins are covered.

and blessed is the man to whom Elohim will not reckon his sin.

Is this blessedness therefore on the circumcision, or on the uncircumcision? For we say that Avraham's faith was reckoned to him for righteousness.

How then was it reckoned to him? In circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

For he received circumcision as a sign and a seal of the righteousness of his faith that was in uncircumcision, that he might be father to all who believe from uncircumcision, that it might be reckoned also to them for righteousness,

and father to the circumcision, not only to those who are of the circumcision, but also to those who walk in the steps of the faith of the uncircumcision of our father Avraham.

For the promise to Avraham and to his seed, that he would be heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of his faith.

For if those who are of the law were heirs, faith would be empty, and the promise would be void.

For the law is a worker of wrath; for where there is no law, there is also no transgression of law.

Because of this it is by faith, which is by grace, that we are justified, so that the promise may be sure to all his seed; not only to the one who is of the law, but also to the one who is of the faith of Avraham, who is the father of us all,

as it is written: I have set you a father to a multitude of peoples; namely before Elohim, in whom you have believed, who gives life to the dead and calls those who are not as though they are.

And without hope he believed in hope that he would become a father to a multitude of peoples, as it is written: So will your seed be.

And he did not weaken in his faith when he contemplated his dead body (for he was a hundred years old) and the dead womb of Sara.

And he did not doubt at the promise of Elohim as one lacking faith, but was strengthened in faith and gave glory to Elohim;

and was assured that what Elohim had promised him he is able to fulfill.

Because of this it was accounted to him for righteousness.

And it was not for his sake alone that this was written, that his faith was accounted for righteousness;

but also for our sake, because it is to be accounted so to us also who believe in him who raised our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach from the dead.

who was delivered up on account of our sins, and rose that we might be justified.