but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
Parallel translations
- WEB but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- KJV But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
- NKJV but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
- NASB but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, to us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
- NLT for our benefit, too, assuring us that God will also count us as righteous if we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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Quick answer
Righteousness will also be credited to us who believe in the God who raised Jesus. We are justified by the same faith as Abraham.
Overview
Paul applies Abraham's example directly: righteousness is credited to all who believe in 'him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.' Christian faith, like Abraham's, trusts the God who gives life to the dead, now centered on the risen Christ. This makes explicit that the gospel offers the same justifying faith to believers today.
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- Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
- 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
- Rom 10:9–10that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Acts 13:30But God raised Him from the dead,
- Eph 1:18–20I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
- Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- John 3:14–16Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
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