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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal Translation</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 ="../genesis/15.htm">Genesis 15:1–7</a>; <a href ="../psalms/32.htm">Psalm 32:1–11</a>; <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 Abraham our father to have 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 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 says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>How then was it reckoned? to him being 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 the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to 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 them not of circumcision only, but also to them, walking in order in the tracks of the uncircumcision, of the faith of our father Abraham.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Abraham Receives the Promise<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../genesis/15.htm#8">Genesis 15:8–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore of faith, that according to grace; the promise to be firm to all the seed; not to that of the law only, but also to that of the faith of Abraham; who is 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, That have set thee father of many nations,) over against him who believed God, making alive the dead, and calling things not being as being. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it was not written for him 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 also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to them believing upon him having raised up 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 faults, and raised up for our justification.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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