James 2:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

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  • Gen 15:6 : 6 And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,
  • Rom 4:3-6 : 3 for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' 4 and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; 5 and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness: 6 even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:
  • Gal 3:6 : 6 according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;
  • Rom 4:22-24 : 22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness. 23 And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him, 24 but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned -- to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'
  • Gal 3:8-9 : 8 and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham -- 9 `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham, 10 for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed `is' every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing.
  • Rom 4:10-11 : 10 how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision; 11 and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
  • Job 16:21 : 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 And Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses face unto face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and he hath turned back unto the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, departeth not out of the tent.
  • Mark 15:27 : 27 And with him they crucify two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on his left,
  • Luke 4:21 : 21 And he began to say unto them -- `To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;'
  • John 15:13-15 : 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you; 15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.
  • Acts 1:16 : 16 `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,
  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

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    1What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

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    6according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

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    6And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.

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    22wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

    23And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,

    24but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned -- to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

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    9`Is' this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?

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    11and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

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    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

    17who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

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    17By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

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    8-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

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    1And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, `Abraham;' and he saith, `Here `am' I.'

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    27Abram -- he `is' Abraham.

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    2and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;

  • Rom 3:30
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    30yes, also of nations; since one `is' God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,

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    34And he saith, `I `am' Abraham's servant;

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    28therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

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    4`I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

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    1And Abraham `is' old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all `things';

  • Gen 18:18
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    18and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?