Genesis 15:6

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Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.

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  • Jas 2:23 : 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
  • Gal 3:6-9 : 6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, 7 so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.” 9 So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer. 10 For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.” 11 Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith. 12 But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
  • Rom 4:3-6 : 3 For what does the scripture say?“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness. 6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
  • Rom 4:9 : 9 Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”
  • Rom 4:11 : 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 would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
  • Rom 4:20-25 : 20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. 21 He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do. 22 So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness. 23 But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake, 24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
  • Ps 106:31 : 31 This was credited to him as a righteous act for all generations to come.
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.

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  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

    7so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.

    8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”

    9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

  • Rom 4:2-3
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    85%

    2For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.

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

  • Rom 4:16-24
    9 verses
    82%

    16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

    17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

    18Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”

    19Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

    20He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

    21He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

    22So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

    23But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

    24but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

  • Ps 106:31
    79%

    31This was credited to him as a righteous act for all generations to come.

  • Jas 2:21-24
    4 verses
    79%

    21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

    22You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

    23And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

    24You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    7The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

    8But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

  • Gen 15:5
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    5The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    9Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

    10How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

    11And 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 would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.

    12And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

    13For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

  • Rom 4:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

    6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Heb 11:6-9
    4 verses
    73%

    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

    7By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

    8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

    9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

  • Heb 11:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

  • Heb 11:11
    71%

    11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

  • Heb 6:15
    71%

    15And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

  • Rom 1:17
    70%

    17For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • Gen 26:5
    70%

    5All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

  • Gen 18:18-19
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    70%

    18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

    19I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

  • Rom 9:30
    70%

    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

  • Neh 9:8
    69%

    8When you perceived that his heart was faithful toward you, you established a covenant with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

  • Heb 6:13
    69%

    13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  • Heb 11:2
    69%

    2For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

  • Gen 15:1
    69%

    1The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”