Romans 4:9

⁹Beatitudo ergo haec in circumcisione an etiam in praeputio? Dicimus enim: " Reputata est Abrahae fides ad iustitiam ".

Romans 4 is Paul's masterful demonstration that the pattern of salvation has always been by faith alone, not by works of the law. He takes his Jewish readers back to their founding father, Abraham, and shows from Genesis 15:6 that Abraham was counted righteous before he was circu