So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

For we consider that a person is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law.

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”

now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

One should think about us this way – as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me – may they not be held accountable for it.