from the works of the law. 003:029 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 003:030 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith. 003:031 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law. 004:001 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 004:002 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. 004:003 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."{Genesis 15:6} 004:004 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as debt. 004:005 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 004:006 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, 004:007 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 004:008 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."{Psalm 32:1-2} 004:009 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 004:010 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 004:011 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 be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 004:012 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. 004:013 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 004:014 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 004:015 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience. 004:016 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 seed, 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. 004:017 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations."{Genesis 17:5} 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.