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Romans 4:6

And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abraham;   Bigotry;   Catholicity;   Faith;   Justification;   Salvation;   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Grace;   Imputation;   Righteousness;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Forgiveness;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blessed, the;   Justification before God;   Righteousness;   Righteousness Imputed;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Justification;   Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blessing;   Genesis, Theology of;   Works of the Law;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Imputation;   Sandemanians;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Justification;   Sanctification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Impute;   Justification;   Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Justification;   Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament;   Romans, Book of;   Works;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beatitudes;   Blessedness;   Grace;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Justification, Justify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - David ;   Faith;   Law;   Romans Epistle to the;   Ungodliness ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Impute;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bind;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beatitudes;   Blessedness;   Describe;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Imputation;   Justification;   Psalms, Book of;   Work;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
David said the same thing when he was talking about the blessing people have when God accepts them as good without looking at what they have done:
Revised Standard Version
So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Even as David describeth the blessedfulnes of the man vnto whom god ascribeth rihgtewesnes without dedes.
Hebrew Names Version
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
International Standard Version
Likewise, David also speaks of the blessedness of the person whom God regards as righteous apart from works:
New American Standard Bible
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
New Century Version
David said the same thing. He said that people are truly blessed when God, without paying attention to their deeds, makes people right with himself.
Update Bible Version
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man, to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works,
Webster's Bible Translation
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
English Standard Version
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
World English Bible
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:
Weymouth's New Testament
In this way David also tells of the blessedness of the man to whose credit God places righteousness, apart from his actions.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As Dauid seith the blessidnesse of a man, whom God acceptith, he yyueth to hym riytwisnesse with outen werkis of the lawe,
English Revised Version
Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,
Berean Standard Bible
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures David talks about the blessings that come to people who are acceptable to God, even though they don't do anything to deserve these blessings. David says,
American Standard Version
Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,
Bible in Basic English
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
Complete Jewish Bible
In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances:
Darby Translation
Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:
Etheridge Translation
As also David hath spoken concerning the blessedness of the man to whom Aloha reckoneth righteousness without works, saying,
Murdock Translation
As David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man, to whom God reckoneth righteousness without works,
King James Version (1611)
Euen as Dauid also describeth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works:
New Living Translation
David also spoke of this when he described the happiness of those who are declared righteous without working for it:
New Life Bible
David tells of this. He spoke of how happy the man is who puts his trust in God without working to be saved from the punishment of sin.
New Revised Standard
So also David speaks of the blessedness of those to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen as Dauid declareth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnes without workes, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
Just as David also said about the blessedness of the man, whom God declared righteous without works,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just as David also affirmeth the happiness of the man unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen as Dauid describeth the blessednesse of the man vnto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes:
Good News Translation
This is what David meant when he spoke of the happiness of the person whom God accepts as righteous, apart from anything that person does:
Christian Standard Bible®
Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
King James Version
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Lexham English Bible
just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Literal Translation
Even as also David says of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Young's Literal Translation
even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as Dauid sayeth also, that blessednes is onely that mans, vnto who God counteth righteousnes without addinge to of workes, where he sayeth:
Mace New Testament (1729)
even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works,
THE MESSAGE
David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man: Fortunate those whose crimes are carted off, whose sins are wiped clean from the slate. Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score. Do you think for a minute that this blessing is only pronounced over those of us who keep our religious ways and are circumcised? Or do you think it possible that the blessing could be given to those who never even heard of our ways, who were never brought up in the disciplines of God? We all agree, don't we, that it was by embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God?
New English Translation
So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
New King James Version
just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
Simplified Cowboy Version
Old David even talked about it long ago when he spoke of the happiness of the cowboys who God had chosen, not because they were Top Hands, but because they had top faith. They got all of this without toeing a stirrup. He said,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Legacy Standard Bible
just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

Contextual Overview

1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather humanly speaking, has found? [Has he obtained a favored standing?] 2For if Abraham was justified [that is, acquitted from the guilt of his sins] by works [those things he did that were good], he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED IN (trusted, relied on) GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIS ACCOUNT AS RIGHTEOUSNESS (right living, right standing with God)." 4Now to a laborer, his wages are not credited as a favor or a gift, but as an obligation [something owed to him]. 5But to the one who does not work [that is, the one who does not try to earn his salvation by doing good], but believes and completely trusts in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God). 6And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:7"BLESSED and HAPPY and FAVORED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS ACTS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED UP and COMPLETELY BURIED. 8"BLESSED and HAPPY and FAVORED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT nor CHARGE AGAINST HIM."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blessedness: Romans 4:9, Deuteronomy 33:29, Psalms 1:1-3, Psalms 112:1, Psalms 146:5, Psalms 146:6, Matthew 5:3-12, Galatians 3:8, Galatians 3:9, Galatians 3:14, Galatians 4:15, Ephesians 1:3

imputeth: Romans 4:11, Romans 4:24, Romans 1:17, Romans 3:22, Romans 5:18, Romans 5:19, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 45:25, Isaiah 54:17, Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 33:16, Daniel 9:24, 1 Corinthians 1:30, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Philippians 3:9, 2 Peter 1:1

without: Romans 3:20, Romans 3:21, Romans 3:27, Ephesians 2:8-10, 2 Timothy 1:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:4 - blood shall Numbers 22:12 - for they 2 Samuel 19:19 - Let not Psalms 24:5 - receive Psalms 32:1 - transgression Isaiah 59:6 - neither Matthew 9:2 - be Luke 1:77 - the Acts 26:18 - that they Romans 4:22 - it was imputed 2 Corinthians 5:19 - not Galatians 2:16 - but Galatians 3:6 - accounted Ephesians 1:7 - the forgiveness Colossians 1:14 - the 1 John 2:12 - your

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now the man Adam knew Eve as his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have obtained a man (baby boy, son) with the help of the LORD."
Genesis 4:3
And in the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought [an offering of] the [finest] firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. And the LORD had respect (regard) for Abel and for his offering;
Genesis 4:5
but for Cain and his offering He had no respect. So Cain became extremely angry (indignant), and he looked annoyed and hostile.
Genesis 4:8
Cain talked with Abel his brother [about what God had said]. And when they were [alone, working] in the field, Cain attacked Abel his brother and killed him.
Genesis 4:11
"And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:13
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Job 5:2
"For anger slays the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be like wool.
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the LORD, "What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, That they have wandered far from Me And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,.... the apostle having instanced in Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, cites some passages from David, king of Israel, a person of great note and esteem among the Jews, in favour of the doctrine he is establishing; who in a very proper and lively manner describes the happiness of such persons:

unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. This righteousness cannot be the righteousness of the law, or man's obedience to it; for that is a righteousness with works, is a man's own, and not imputed; and indeed is not a righteousness in the sight of God: nor does man's blessedness lie in, or come by it; no man is, or can be instilled by it, nor saved by it, or attain to heaven and eternal happiness by the means of it; but the righteousness here spoken of is the righteousness of Christ, called the righteousness of God; and is better than that of angels or men; is complete and perfect; by which the law is honoured, and justice is satisfied. This is freely bestowed, and graciously "imputed" by God. Just in the same way his righteousness becomes ours, as Adam's sin did, which is by imputation; or in the same way that our sins became Christ's, his righteousness becomes ours; and as we have no righteousness of our own when God justifies us, this must be done by the righteousness of another; and that can be done no other way by the righteousness of another, than by imputing it to us: and which is done "without works"; not without the works of Christ, of which this righteousness consists; but without the works of the creature, or any consideration of them, which are utterly excluded from justification; for if these came into account, it would not be of grace, and boasting would not be removed. Now such who have this righteousness thus imputed to them, are happy persons; they are justified from all sin, and freed from all condemnation; their persons and services are acceptable to God; it will be always well with them; they are heirs of glory, and shall enjoy it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even as David - The apostle having adduced the example of Abraham to show that the doctrine which he was defending was not new, and contrary to the Old Testament, proceeds to adduce the case of David also; and to show that he understood the same doctrine of justification without works.

Describeth - Speaks of.

The blessedness - The happiness; or the desirable state or condition.

Unto whom God imputeth righteousness - Whom God treats as righteous, or as entitled to his favor in a way different from his conformity to the Law. This is found in Psalms 32:1-11. And the whole scope and design of the psalm is to show the blessedness of the man who is forgiven, and whose sins are not charged on him, but who is freed from the punishment due to his sins. Being thus pardoned, he is treated as a righteous man. And it is evidently in this sense that the apostle uses the expression “imputeth righteousness,” that is, he does not impute, or charge on the man his sins; he reckons and treats him as a pardoned and righteous man; Psalms 32:2. See the note at Romans 4:3. He regards him as one who is forgiven and admitted to his favor, and who is to be treated henceforward as though he had not sinned. That is, he partakes of the benefits of Christ’s atonement, so as not henceforward to be treated as a sinner, but as a friend of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 4:6. Even as David also, c.] David, in Psalms 32:1-2, gives us also the true notion of this way of justification, i.e. by faith, without the merit of works, where he says: -


 
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