{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:31:58.402Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath <i>whereof</i> to glory; but not before God."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"<i>Saying</i>, Blessed <i>are</i> they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Blessed <i>is</i> the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"<i>Cometh</i> this blessedness then upon the circumcision <i>only</i>, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which <i>he had yet</i> being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which <i>he had</i> being <i>yet</i> uncircumcised."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, <i>was</i> not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For if they which are of the law <i>be</i> heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, <i>there is</i> no transgression."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Therefore <i>it is</i> of faith, that <i>it might be</i> by grace; to the end the promise might 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,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, <i>even</i> God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 4 (KJV)","markdown":"[Romans 4](https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}