Romans 4 (NMV)
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham was made right with God by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
4 Now to the one who works, the wages are not credited as a gift, but as something owed.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the One who makes the ungodly right with Him, their faith is credited as righteousness.
6 Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are those whose violations of God's commands are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them."
9 Is this blessing only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How then was it credited, while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be credited to them also.
12 And to make him the father of the circumcised, not only those who are circumcised, but also those who follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, then faith is made empty and the promise is nullified.
15 Because the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, there is no violation.
16 This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace and may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to those who are of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 As it is written: "I have made you the father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not yet exist.
18 Against all hope, Abraham believed with confident expectation and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him: "So shall your descendants be."
19 Without weakening in faith, he considered his own body as already dead, he was about a hundred years old, and also considered the deadness of Sarah's womb.
20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
21 being fully convinced that what God had promised, He was also able to do.
22 This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was credited to him,
24 but also for us, to whom it will be credited, to those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25 He was handed over for our violations of God's commands and raised for our being made right with God.