How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

He was ¹  fully convinced that what God ²  promised he was also able to do.

So indeed it was credited to Abraham ¹  as righteousness.

He ¹  was given over ²  because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of ³  our justification. ⁴ 

But the statement it was credited to him ¹  was not written only for Abraham’s ²  sake,

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

¹  it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,” ² 

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

concerning his Son who was a descendant ¹  of David with reference to the flesh, ² 

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God ¹  who subjected it – in hope

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited ¹  to him as righteousness.” ² 

and I died. So ¹  I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death! ² 

This is the reason I was often hindered from coming to you.

He ¹  did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

Without being weak in faith, he considered ¹  his own body as dead ²  (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me. ¹ 

For if Abraham was declared righteous ¹  by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Is this blessedness ¹  then for ²  the circumcision ³  or also for ⁴  the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.” ⁵ 

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The ¹  rest were hardened,