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Romans 4

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Romans 4 . 1

1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:1

Romans 4 . 2

2 If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:2

Romans 4 . 3

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”IPGenesis 15:6CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:3

Romans 4 . 4

4 Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:4

Romans 4 . 5

5 However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:5

Romans 4 . 6

6 And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:6

Romans 4 . 7

7 “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.IPPsalm 32:1-2CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:7

Romans 4 . 8

8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:8

Romans 4 . 9

9 Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:9

Romans 4 . 10

10 In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:10

Romans 4 . 11

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:11

Romans 4 . 12

12 And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:12

Romans 4 . 13

13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.IPGenesis 12:2-3CRomans 04:1-13TOSKRomans 4:13

Romans 4 . 14

14 For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,TOSKRomans 4:14

Romans 4 . 15

15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.TOSKRomans 4:15

Romans 4 . 16

16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.TOSKRomans 4:16TTAbraham (Father of Faith)

Romans 4 . 17

17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.IPGenesis 17:5TOSKRomans 4:17

Romans 4 . 18

18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”IPGenesis 15:5TOSKRomans 4:18

Romans 4 . 19

19 Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.TOSKRomans 4:19TTSarah (Mother of Promise)

Romans 4 . 20

20 Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,TOSKRomans 4:20

Romans 4 . 21

21 being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.TOSKRomans 4:21

Romans 4 . 22

22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”TOSKRomans 4:22

Romans 4 . 23

23 Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,TOSKRomans 4:23

Romans 4 . 24

24 but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.TOSKRomans 4:24

Romans 4 . 25

25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.IPIsaiah 53:5TOSKRomans 4:25

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Intertextuality Pairs

Quotations Romans 4:17 → Genesis 17:5, Romans 4:18 → Genesis 15:5, Romans 4:3 → Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:7-8 → Psalm 32:1-2

Allusions Romans 4:13 → Genesis 12:2-3, Romans 4:25 → Isaiah 53:5

Trajectories

Abraham (Father of Faith), Sarah (Mother of Promise)

Chiasms

Shaped Romans 04:1–13