For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very thing I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame."

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know [what the Scripture says] in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

For He has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no gifts to give for it.

Have you not even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes about [from] one's own interpretation,

for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being brought along by [the] Holy Spirit.

And Abram believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness."

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called a friend of God.

But to him who does not work but believes on Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

Does this blessing then come upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had while] in uncircumcision, so that he should be the father of all those that believe, although uncircumcised, so that righteousness should also be imputed to them,

And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."

but for us also, to whom it was going to be imputed, those believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever.