1 What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?
2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before god;
3 for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'
4 and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;