But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up 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,
- BSB but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised 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 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
- 1 Pet 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Rom 10:9–10That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
- Acts 13:30But God raised him from the dead:
- Eph 1:18–20The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
- Heb 13:20–21Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Acts 2:39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
- John 3:14–16And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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