Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Romans 4:7
“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 3:21
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
Galatians 3:6
Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
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Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Romans 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:10
How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
Romans 4:12
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
Matthew 3:9
Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
John 8:39
They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
Joshua 24:3
I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
Luke 1:73
the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
John 8:53
Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and was glad.”
Acts 7:2
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Luke 3:8
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
Luke 16:30
“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
John 8:33
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
Acts 13:26
“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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Romans 3:1
Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
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Romans 3:27
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 3:28
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Romans 3:30
since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
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Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Philippians 3:4
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
1 Corinthians 10:18
Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don’t those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
Romans 4:19
Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
Romans 4:20
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Romans 4:21
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
Romans 4:22
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:23
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Romans 4:24
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
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Romans 9:5
of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
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Romans 1:3
concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
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Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
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