Don't work and... wages = righteousness
This inference relates to the commonly asked question "Do we need to do good things to go to Heaven?" According to verse 5, having faith in God outweighs doing good works solely for the purpose of getting into Heaven. One does not only need to do great things in order to get into Heaven. As a matter of fact, doing good works alone will not get you any closer to God if you do not have faith in Jesus in the first place. But the basic idea in verses 1-8 is that it is better to have faith and not have good works than to have good works without faith.
And Abraham is the father of all believers. Because he was so faithful to God. God credited his faith not after he was circumsized, but before. And because God has made Abraham a righteous man, all those who are not yet saved can be or allowed to be saved too.
Amen.
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