Romans 4
"No Room For Boasting"

Abraham Justified by Faith

 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 

 

² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 

 

 ³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 

 

⁴ Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

David Celebrates the Same Truth

⁵ But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 

 ⁶ just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

 

 

⁷ “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”