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A person is really happy when the Lord accepts him.
The Lord does not think about that person's sin any more.’[a]

God does this for all people, both Jews and Gentiles. All people can be really happy like this, when God accepts them. As we have said, Abraham believed God. As a result, God accepted Abraham as right with him. 10 They circumcised Abraham to show that he was a Jew. Think about the time when God accepted Abraham. Did it happen before they circumcised him, or after that? We know that it was before they circumcised him!

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  1. 4:8 See Psalms 32:1-2.