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Happy is the person
    whom the Lord does not consider guilty.” Psalm 32:1-2

Is this blessing only for those who are circumcised? Or is it also for those who are not circumcised? We have already said that God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God. 10 So how did this happen? Did God accept Abraham before or after he was circumcised? God accepted him before his circumcision.

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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) 10 Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before!

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Footnotes

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