James 2:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And the scripture was fulfylled, which sayth: Abraham beleued God, and it was reputed vnto hym for ryghteousnesse: And he was called the friende of God.

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  • Gen 15:6 : 6 And Abram beleued the Lord, & that counted he to hym for righteousnesse.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Art not thou our God, whiche diddest cast out the inhabiters of this lande before thy people Israel, & gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer?
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But thou Israel art my seruaunt, thou Iacob whom I haue chose, thou art the seede of Abraham my beloued.
  • Rom 4:3-6 : 3 For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleued God, and it was counted vnto hym for ryghteousnes. 4 To hym that worketh, is the reward not reckened of grace, but of duetie. 5 To hym that worketh not, but beleueth on hym that iustifieth the vngodly, his fayth is counted for ryghteousnes. 6 Euen as Dauid describeth the blessednesse of the man vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes:
  • Gal 3:6 : 6 Euen as Abraham beleued God, & it was ascribed to hym for righteousnesse.
  • Rom 4:22-24 : 22 And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes. 23 Neuerthelesse, it is not written for hym only, that it was reckened to him: 24 But also for vs, to whom it shalbe reckened, so that we beleue on hym that raysed vp Iesus our Lorde from the dead.
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 For the scripture sayth vnto Pharao: Euen for this same purpose haue I stirred thee vp, to shewe my power in thee, & that my name myght be declared throughout all the worlde.
  • Gal 3:8-9 : 8 For the scripture seyng aforehande that God woulde iustifie the Heathen through fayth, shewed beforehand glad tydynges vnto Abraham, saying: In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then, they which be of fayth, are blessed with the faythfull Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the deedes of the lawe, are vnder the curse. For it is writte: Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe, to do them.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promise by ye fayth of Iesus Christe shoulde be geuen vnto them that beleue.
  • Rom 4:10-11 : 10 Howe was it then reckened? When he was in the circumcision? or whe he was in the vncircumcision? Not in the circumcision: but in vncircumcision. 11 And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also.
  • Job 16:21 : 21 O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 And the Lord spake vnto Moyses face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his freende. And he turued agayne into the hoast: but the young man Iosuah his seruaunt the sonne of Nun, departed not out of the tabernacle.
  • Mark 15:27 : 27 And they crucifed with hym two thieues: the one on the ryght hande, and the other on his left.
  • Luke 4:21 : 21 And he began to say vnto the: this day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares.
  • John 15:13-15 : 13 Greater loue hath no man, then this: yt a man bestowe his life for his frendes. 14 Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you. 15 Hencefoorth call I you not seruautes: for the seruaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you haue I called frendes, for all thynges that I haue hearde of my father, haue I made knowen to you.
  • Acts 1:16 : 16 Ye men and brethren, this scripture must needes haue ben fulfylled, which the holy ghost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas, which was guide to them that toke Iesus:
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Haue ye not read this Scripture? The stone which the builders dyd refuse, is become the chiefe stone of the corner:
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 All scripture is geuen by inspiration of God, and is profitable to doctrine, to reproue, to correction, to instruction which is in ryghteousnesse,
  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God hath not cast away his people which he knewe before. Wote ye not what the scripture sayth of Elias? howe he maketh intercession to God, agaynst Israel,

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    1What shall we saye then that Abraham our father, as parteynyng to the flesshe, dyd fynde?

    2For if Abraham were iustified by workes, the hath he wherein to boaste, but not before God.

    3For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleued God, and it was counted vnto hym for ryghteousnes.

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    6Euen as Abraham beleued God, & it was ascribed to hym for righteousnesse.

    7Knowe ye therfore, that they which are of fayth, the same are the chyldren of Abraham.

    8For the scripture seyng aforehande that God woulde iustifie the Heathen through fayth, shewed beforehand glad tydynges vnto Abraham, saying: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

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    21Was not Abraham our father iustified through workes, when he had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the aulter?

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    6And Abram beleued the Lord, & that counted he to hym for righteousnesse.

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    22And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes.

    23Neuerthelesse, it is not written for hym only, that it was reckened to him:

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    9Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcision, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that fayth was reckened to Abraham for ryghteousnes.

    10Howe was it then reckened? When he was in the circumcision? or whe he was in the vncircumcision? Not in the circumcision: but in vncircumcision.

    11And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also.

    12And that he myght be father of circumcision, not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised: but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham, before the time of circumcision.

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    5To hym that worketh not, but beleueth on hym that iustifieth the vngodly, his fayth is counted for ryghteousnes.

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    16Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace, that the promise myght be sure to all ye seede, not to that only which is of the lawe, but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham, which is the father of vs al.

    17(As it is written, that I haue made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he beleued, which restoreth the dead vnto life, and calleth those thynges whiche be not, as though they were.

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    17By fayth Abraham offered by Isaac when he was proued: and he that had receaued the promises, offered vp his only begotten sonne:

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    31And that was imputed vnto hym for righteousnesse: in generation and generation for euermore.

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    8But thou Israel art my seruaunt, thou Iacob whom I haue chose, thou art the seede of Abraham my beloued.

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    17For by it is the ryghteousnes of God opened fro fayth to fayth. As it is written: the iuste shall lyue by fayth.

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    22And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

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    1After these sayinges, god did tempt Abraham, and sayde vnto him Abraham. Which answered, here I am.

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    5Because that Abraham hearkened vnto my voyce, & kept my ordinaunce, my commaundementes, my statutes, and my lawes.

  • 1 Chr 1:27
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    27Abram, otherwyse called Abraham.

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    2For Sara conceaued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen the same season whiche the Lorde had appoynted.

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    30For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth.

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    34And he sayde: I am Abrahams seruaunt,

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    28Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe.

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    2For by it, the elders obtayned a good report.

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    13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by hym selfe,

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    4It is I, behold my couenaut is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

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    1And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.

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    18Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?