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7-8 (A) “What a blessing
when God forgives our sins
    and our evil deeds.
What a blessing
when the Lord erases our sins
    from his book.”

Are these blessings meant for circumcised people or for those who are not circumcised? Well, the Scriptures say that God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith in him.

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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