Romans 4
Reading Romans chapter 4 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.
4 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.
6 As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works:
7 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.
9 This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.
10 How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
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