Romans 4:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

And therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

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  • Rom 4:3 : 3 For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
  • Rom 4:6 : 6 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works,

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  • Rom 4:23-25
    3 verses
    88%

    23Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was credited to him;

    24But also for us, to whom it shall be credited, if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead;

    25Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

  • Rom 4:1-13
    13 verses
    86%

    1What shall we say then that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?

    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has reason to boast; but not before God.

    3For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

    4Now to him who works, the reward is not given of grace, but as a debt.

    5But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works,

    7Saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

    8Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not credit sin.

    9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How was it then credited? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

    12And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised.

    13For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    8And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles through faith, preached beforehand the gospel unto Abraham, saying, 'In you shall all nations be blessed.'

    9So then those who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

  • Gen 15:6
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    6And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness.

  • Ps 106:31
    79%

    31And that was accounted unto him for righteousness unto all generations forevermore.

  • Jas 2:21-25
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    21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

    22Do you see how faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?

    23And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. And he was called the Friend of God.

    24You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

    25Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

  • Rom 4:16-21
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    16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end that the promise might be sure to all the descendants; not to those only who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

    17As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.

    18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall your descendants be.

    19And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

    20He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

    21And being fully convinced that what He had promised, He was able also to perform.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'

  • Rom 3:21-22
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    21But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets,

    22even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference:

  • Rom 3:26-28
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    26to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

    27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

    28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith.

  • Heb 11:2
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    2For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

  • Rom 5:1
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    1Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Gal 3:11
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    11But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for 'The just shall live by faith.'

  • Phil 3:9
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    9And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

  • Heb 11:18-19
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    18of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,'

    19concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

  • Acts 13:39
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    39And by him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

  • Rom 10:4
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    4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.