Galatians 3:6

Amplified Bible

Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS, [as conformity to God's will and purpose—so it is with you also].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?

King James Version (1611)
Euen as Abraham beleeued God, and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse.

King James Version
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

English Standard Version
just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?

New American Standard Bible
Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

New Century Version
The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham: "Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham's faith, and that faith made him right with God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Legacy Standard Bible
Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness,

Berean Standard Bible
So also, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Contemporary English Version
The Scriptures say that God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith.

Complete Jewish Bible
It was the same with Avraham: "He trusted in God and was faithful to him, and that was credited to his account as righteousness."

Darby Translation
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham. "Abraham believed God, and because of this faith he was accepted as one who is right with God."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea rather as Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnes.

George Lamsa Translation
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,

Good News Translation
Consider the experience of Abraham; as the scripture says, "He believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous."

Lexham English Bible
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,

Literal Translation
Even "as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness," Gen 15:6

American Standard Version
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

Bible in Basic English
Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

Hebrew Names Version
Even as Avraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

International Standard Version
In the same way, Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."Genesis 15:6">[fn]Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3,9, 21-22; James 2:23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
As Abraham believed Aloha, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, [fn]

Murdock Translation
In like manner Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen as Abraham beleued God, & it was ascribed to hym for righteousnesse.

English Revised Version
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

World English Bible
Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
As Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Weymouth's New Testament
even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As it is writun, Abraham bileuede to God, and it was rettid to hym to riytfulnesse.

Update Bible Version
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

New English Translation
Just as Abraham believed God , and it was credited to him as righteousness ,

New King James Version
just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Genesis 15:6">[fn]

New Living Translation
In the same way, "Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith."

New Life Bible
It was the same with Abraham. He put his trust in God. This made Abraham right with God.

New Revised Standard
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even as Abraham - believed in God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As it is written: Abraham believed God: and it was reputed to him unto justice.

Revised Standard Version
Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Even as Abraham beleved God and it was asscribed to him for rightewesnes.

Young's Literal Translation
according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as Abraha beleued God, and it was counted vnto him for righteousnes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:

Simplified Cowboy Version
Think about it! Abraham believed in God. He and God were tight because of that, not because he was good at following rules. It was because of his faith.

Contextual Overview

⁶Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS, [as conformity to God's will and purpose—so it is with you also]. ⁷So understand that it is the people who live by faith [with confidence in the power and goodness of God] who are [the true] sons of Abraham. ⁸The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news [of the Savior] to Abraham in advance [with this promise], saying, "IN YOU SHALL ALL THE NATIONS BE BLESSED." ⁹So then those who are people of faith [whether Jew or Gentile] are blessed and favored by God [and declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing with Him] along with Abraham, the believer. ¹⁰For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, "CURSED (condemned to destruction) IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, SO AS TO PRACTICE THEM." ¹¹Now it is clear that no one is justified [that is, declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty, and placed in right standing] before God by the Law, for "THE RIGHTEOUS (the just, the upright) SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." ¹²But the Law does not rest on or require faith [it has nothing to do with faith], but [instead, the Law] says, "HE WHO PRACTICES THEM [the things prescribed by the Law] SHALL LIVE BY THEM [instead of faith]." ¹³Christ purchased our freedom and redeemed us from the curse of the Law and its condemnation by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS [crucified] ON A TREE (cross)"— ¹⁴in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might also come to the Gentiles, so that we would all receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit through faith. ¹⁵Brothers and sisters, I speak in terms of human relations: even though a last will and testament is just a human covenant, yet when it has been signed and made legally binding, no one sets it aside or adds to it [modifying it in some way].

Bible Verse Review
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as: Galatians 3:9, Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:3-6, Romans 4:9, Romans 4:10, Romans 4:21, Romans 4:22, Romans 9:32, Romans 9:33, James 2:23

accounted: or, imputed, Romans 4:6, Romans 4:11, Romans 4:22, Romans 4:24, 2 Corinthians 5:19-21

Reciprocal: Romans 3:22 - unto all Galatians 3:14 - the blessing

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all the cattle, And more than any animal of the field; On your belly you shall go, And dust you shall eat All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel."

Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19
"By the sweat of your face You will eat bread Until you return to the ground, For from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.

Genesis 39:7
Then after a time his master's wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, "Lie with me."

Joshua 7:21
when I saw among the spoils [in Jericho] a beautiful robe from Shinar (southern Babylon) and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I wanted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even as Abraham believed God,.... The apostle having observed, that the special grace and extraordinary gifts of the Spirit were received not through the preaching of the law, but through the doctrine of faith; by an easy transition, passes on to a further confirmation of the doctrine of justification by faith, by producing the instance of Abraham, what the Scripture says of him, and the promise made unto him; which is very appropriate to his purpose, since Abraham was certainly a righteous man, the first of the circumcision, and the head of the Jewish nation; and whom the false teachers much gloried in, and boasted of their being his seed, and of being circumcised as he was; and would fain have persuaded the Gentiles to the same practice, in imitation of him, and as necessary to their justification before God; whereas the apostle here shows, referring to Genesis 15:6 that Abraham was justified by faith, and not by any works whatever, much less by circumcision; for what he here refers to, was many years before his circumcision; and since therefore he was a justified person, declared to be so, before it and without it, it was not necessary to his justification, nor is it to any other person's: he

believed God. The object of faith is God, Father, Son, and Spirit; here Jehovah the Son seems principally intended, who in Genesis 15:1 is called the "Word of the Lord"; the essential Word, who was with God from everlasting, and was God, and in the fulness of time was made flesh and dwelt among men; and "Abraham's shield", the same the apostle in Ephesians 6:16 calls "the shield of faith"; meaning not the grace of faith, but Christ the object of faith; which faith lays hold on, and makes use of as a shield against the temptations of Satan: and also his "exceeding great reward"; his all in all, being made to him, as to all believers, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption: him he believed, not only that he was God, but he believed his word of promise, and in his power and faithfulness to fulfil it; which regarded not only his natural offspring, and a numerous race, the enjoyment of the land of Canaan, and many temporal good things in it, but the Messiah, and spiritual blessings in him: he "believed in the Lord", Genesis 15:6 in Jehovah the Word, in him as his shield, and exceeding great reward, in him as the Lord his righteousness:

and it was accounted to him for righteousness; that is, by God, whom he believed; for the sense is, not that Abraham ascribed righteousness to God, and celebrated his justice and faithfulness, as some; nor, as others, that Abraham was accounted a righteous man by the world; but that something was accounted by God to Abraham as his righteousness, which could not be the act of his faith; for faith is not a man's righteousness, neither in whole nor in part; faith and righteousness are two distinct things, and are often distinguished one from another in Scripture: besides, that which was accounted to Abraham for righteousness, is imputed to others also; see Romans 4:23 which can never be true of the act of his faith; but is of the object of it, the word of the Lord, his shield and exceeding great reward, the Lord his righteousness and strength, who is made or accounted, as to him, so to others, righteousness. The righteousness of Christ, whom he believed in, was accounted to him as his justifying righteousness now for faith to be accounted for righteousness, is all one as to be justified by faith; that is, by Christ, or by his righteousness imputed and received by faith; and if Abraham was justified this way, as he was, the apostle has his argument against the false teachers.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even as Abraham believed God ... - see this passage fully explained in the notes at Romans 4:3. The passage is introduced here by the apostle to show that the most eminent of the patriarchs was not saved by the deeds of the Law. He was saved by faith, and this fact showed that it was possible to be saved in that way, and that it was the design of God to save people in this manner. Abraham believed God, and was justified, before the Law of Moses was given. It could not, therefore, be pretended that the Law was necessary to justification; for if it had been, Abraham could not have been saved. But if not necessary in his case, it was in no other; and this instance demonstrated that the false teachers among the Galatians were wrong even according to the Old Testament.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Galatians 3:6. Abraham believed God — This is quoted from Genesis 15:6, where see the note; and St. Paul produces it, Romans 4:3-5, where also see the notes. Abraham, while even uncircumcised, believed in God, and his faith was reckoned to him for justification; and Abraham is called the father of the faithful, or, of believers. If, then, he was justified without the deeds of the law, he was justified by faith; and if he was justified by faith, long before the law was given then the law is not necessary to salvation.

It is remarkable that the Jews themselves maintained that Abraham was saved by faith. Mehilta, in Yalcut Simeoni, page 1, fol. 69, makes this assertion: "It is evident that Abraham could not obtain an inheritance either in this world or in the world to come, but by faith."