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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.” 10 How was it calculated? When he was circumcised or when he was uncircumcised? It wasn’t when he was circumcised; it was when he was uncircumcised!

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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