Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

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

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

For the scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

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

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

just as it is written, “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

But what was the divine response to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”

And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, and the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles, in him will the Gentiles hope.”

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.