Romans 4:9

World English Bible (2000)

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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  • Rom 4:3 : 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
  • Rom 9:23-24 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
  • Rom 10:12-13 : 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
  • Rom 15:8-9 : 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name." 10 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people." 11 Again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him." 12 Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope." 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 14 I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others. 15 But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
  • Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Gal 3:26-28 : 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 2:11-13 : 11 Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by that which is called "circumcision," (in the flesh, made by hands); 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Col 3:11 : 11 where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel."
  • Rom 3:29-30 : 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

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  • Rom 4:10-13
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    10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11 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 might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12 He is 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.

    13 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.

  • Rom 4:1-6
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    1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

    2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

    3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

    4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

    7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Rom 4:22-24
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    22 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

    23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

    24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

  • Rom 2:25-29
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    25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

    26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

    29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

  • Rom 4:16-17
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    16 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.

    17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." 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.

  • Rom 3:27-30
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    27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

    29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

    30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  • Gen 15:6
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    6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Jas 2:21-24
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    21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

    22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

    23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

    24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

  • Rom 4:8
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    8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

  • Gal 3:14
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    14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

  • Gen 17:24
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    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  • Ps 106:31
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    31 That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

  • Rom 3:22
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    22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • Heb 7:6
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    6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Gal 5:6
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    6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

  • Rom 3:1
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    1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

  • Rom 9:14
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    14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Rom 9:10
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    10 Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Rom 4:19
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    19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

  • Gal 2:16
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.