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Blessed are those whose lawbreaking is forgiven
and whose sins have been covered over;
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not calculate sin.

Abraham the father of both uncircumcised and circumcised

So, then, does this blessing come on circumcised people or on uncircumcised? This is the passage we quoted: “His faith was calculated to Abraham as indicating that he was in the right.”

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“Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[a](A)

Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?(B) We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:8 Psalm 32:1,2