Verse 6

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

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  • Gen 15:6 : 6 Abram believed the LORD, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
  • Rom 4:3-6 : 3 What does the Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.' 4 Now to the one who works, wages are not counted as a gift but as an obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work but believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6 Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
  • Rom 4:24 : 24 but also for us, to whom it will be credited—to those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
  • Rom 4:21-22 : 21 being fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised. 22 Therefore, it was credited to him as righteousness.
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Rom 4:9-9 : 9 Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it credited? Was it while he was circumcised or uncircumcised? It was not while he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness might also be credited to them,
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why not? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stone of stumbling, 33 Just as it is written: 'Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.'
  • Gal 3:9 : 9 So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.