Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
- BSB So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
- NKJV just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
- NASB Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
- NLT In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”
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- Gen 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
- Rom 4:21–22and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
- Jas 2:23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
- Rom 4:3–6For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
- Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- Rom 4:9–11Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
- Gal 3:9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
- Rom 9:32–33Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
- 2 Cor 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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