Rm 4:1Quid ergō dīcēmus invēnisse Abraham patrem nostrum secundum carnem?What then shall we say that Abraham our father according to the flesh has found? Rm 4:2Sī enim Abraham ex operibus jūstificātus est, habet glōriam, sed nōn apud Deum.For if Abraham was justified from works, he has glory, but not before God. Rm 4:3Quid enim dīcit Scrīptūra?For what does Scripture say? Rm 4:3Crēdidit Abraham Deō, et reputātum est illī ad jūstitiam."Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice." Rm 4:4Eī autem quī operātur, mercēs nōn imputātur secundum grātiam, sed secundum dēbitum.But to him who works, the wage is not credited according to grace, but according to debt. Rm 4:5Eī vērō quī nōn operātur, crēdentī autem in eum, quī jūstificat impium, reputātur fidēs ejus ad jūstitiam secundum prōpositum grātiae Deī.But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice according to the purpose of the grace of God. Rm 4:6Sīcut et David dīcit beātitūdinem hominis, cui Deus acceptō fert jūstitiam sine operibus: [Beātī, quōrum remissae sunt inīquitātēs, et quōrum tēcta sunt peccāta.Just as David too speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits justice without works: "Blessed are those whose iniquities have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered.
Rm 4:8Beātus vir, cui nōn imputāvit Dominus peccātum.] Beātitūdō ergō haec in circumcīsiōne tantum manet, an etiam in praepūtiō?Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin." Does this blessedness then remain in circumcision only, or also in foreskin? Rm 4:9Dīcimus enim quia reputāta est Abrahae fidēs ad jūstitiam.For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice. Rm 4:10Quōmodo ergō reputāta est?How then was it reckoned? Rm 4:10In circumcīsiōne, an in praepūtiō?In circumcision, or in foreskin? Rm 4:10Nōn in circumcīsiōne, sed in praepūtiō.Not in circumcision, but in foreskin. Rm 4:11Et signum accēpit circumcīsiōnis, signāculum jūstitiae fideī, quae est in praepūtiō: ut sit pater omnium crēdentium per praepūtium, ut reputētur et illīs ad jūstitiam: et sit pater circumcīsiōnis nōn iīs tantum, quī sunt ex circumcīsiōne, sed et iīs quī sectantur vestīgia fideī, quae est in praepūtiō patris nostrī Abrahae.And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which is in foreskin: so that he might be father of all those believing through foreskin, so that it might be reckoned to them too for justice: and that he might be father of circumcision not to those only who are from circumcision, but also to those who follow the footprints of the faith which is in the foreskin of our father Abraham.
Rm 4:13Nōn enim per lēgem prōmissiō Abrahae, aut sēminī ejus ut haerēs esset mundī: sed per jūstitiam fideī.For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith. Rm 4:14Sī enim quī ex lēge, haerēdēs sunt: exinanīta est fidēs, abolita est prōmissiō.For if those who are from the law are heirs: faith has been emptied, the promise has been abolished. Rm 4:15Lēx enim īram operātur.For the law works anger. Rm 4:15Ubi enim nōn est lēx, nec praevāricātiō.For where there is no law, there is no transgression either. Rm 4:16Ideō ex fidē, ut secundum grātiam firma sit prōmissiō omnī sēminī, nōn eī quī ex lēge est sōlum, sed et eī quī ex fidē est Abrahae, quī pater est omnium nostrum (sīcut scrīptum est: Quia patrem multārum gentium posuī tē) ante Deum, cui crēdidit, quī vīvificat mortuōs, et vocat ea quae nōn sunt, tamquam ea quae sunt: quī contrā spem in spem crēdidit, ut fieret pater multārum gentium secundum quod dictum est eī: Sīc erit sēmen tuum.Therefore it is from faith, so that according to grace the promise may be firm for all the seed, not for that which is from the law only, but also for that which is from the faith of Abraham, who is father of all of us (just as it has been written: "Because I have set you as father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which are not, as those which are: who against hope believed in hope, so that he might become father of many nations according to what was said to him: "So shall your seed be."
Rm 4:19Et nōn īnfirmātus est fidē, nec cōnsīderāvit corpus suum ēmortuum, cum jam ferē centum esset annōrum, et ēmortuam vulvam Sarae.And he was not weakened in faith, nor did he consider his own deadened body, since he was now almost a hundred years old, nor the deadened womb of Sarah. Rm 4:20In reprōmissiōne etiam Deī nōn haesitāvit diffīdentiā, sed cōnfortātus est fidē, dāns glōriam Deō: plēnissimē sciēns, quia quaecumque prōmīsit, potēns est et facere.In the promise of God too he did not waver through distrust, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God: knowing most fully that whatever he has promised, he is powerful also to do. Rm 4:22Ideō et reputātum est illī ad jūstitiam.Therefore also it was reckoned to him for justice. Rm 4:23Nōn est autem scrīptum tantum propter ipsum quia reputātum est illī ad jūstitiam: sed et propter nōs, quibus reputābitur crēdentibus in eum, quī suscitāvit Jēsum Chrīstum Dominum nostrum ā mortuīs, quī trāditus est propter dēlicta nostra, et resurrēxit propter jūstificātiōnem nostram.But it has not been written on account of him only that it was reckoned to him for justice: but also on account of us, to whom it will be reckoned, believing in him who raised Jesus Christ our Lord from the dead, who was handed over on account of our offences, and rose again on account of our justification.