4 Now to him who works, wages are not given as a gift, but as a debt.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6 Even David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness without works:
7 “Blessed are thosewhose iniquities are forgiven,and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the manto whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? We are saying that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How then was it credited? When he was in circumcision? Or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.