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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 4 Worrell New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WOR</a> > Romans 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/3.htm" title="Romans 3">◄</a> Romans 4 <a href="../romans/5.htm" title="Romans 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Worrell New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/romans/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Abraham Justified by Faith<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hebrews/11.htm#8">Hebrews 11:8–19</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What, then, shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For, if Abraham was justified by works, he has ground of boasting, but not toward God. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness." <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but to him that works not, but believes on Him Who justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Happy <i>are those</i> whose iniquities were forgiven, and whose sins were covered.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Happy <i>is</i> the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin."<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Does this happiness, therefore, <i>come</i> upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say, "Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How, then, was it reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he received <i>the</i> sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while in uncircumcision; that he might be father of all who believe while in uncircumcision, that the righteousness might be reckoned to them; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Abraham Receives the Promise<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For, not through law, <i>was</i> the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but <i>it was</i> through <i>the</i> righteousness of faith. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For, if those <i>who are</i> of <i>the</i> law <i>are</i> heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For this cause <i>it is</i> of faith, that <i>it may be</i> according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is <i>the</i> father of us all <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>(as it has been written, "A father of many nations have I made you"), before God Whom he believed, Who maketh alive the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>who, past hope, believed against hope, to the end that he might become <i>the</i> father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So shall your seed be." <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And, being not weakened in faith, he attentively considered his own body already dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but, in view of the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but was made strong in faith, giving glory to God, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and being fully assured that what He had promised, He was able also to perform. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Wherefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned to him; <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>but for ours also, to whom it will be reckoned, if we believe on Him Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised for our justification.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worrell New Testament (1904)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>