Romans 4:22

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, it was credited to him for righteousness.

King James Version (1611)
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

King James Version
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

English Standard Version
That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."

New American Standard Bible
Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

New Century Version
So, "God accepted Abraham's faith, and that faith made him right with God."

Amplified Bible
Therefore his faith WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS (right standing with God).

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore it was also counted to him as righteousness.

Berean Standard Bible
That is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

Contemporary English Version
So God accepted him,

Complete Jewish Bible
This is why it was credited to his account as righteousness.

Darby Translation
wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.

Easy-to-Read Version
So that's why "he was accepted as one who is right with God."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore it was given to him for righteousness.

Good News Translation
That is why Abraham, through faith, "was accepted as righteous by God."

Lexham English Bible
Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness.

Literal Translation
Because of this, "it was also counted to him for righteousness." Gen. 15:6

American Standard Version
Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

Bible in Basic English
For which reason it was put to his account as righteousness.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

International Standard Version
This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."Genesis 15:6">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Wherefore it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Murdock Translation
And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes.

English Revised Version
Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

World English Bible
Therefore also it was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Weymouth's New Testament
For this reason also his faith was placed to his credit as righteousness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor it was arettid to hym to riytwisnesse.

Update Bible Version
Therefore also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

Webster's Bible Translation
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

New English Translation
So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

New King James Version
And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness." Genesis 15:6">[fn]

New Living Translation
And because of Abraham's faith, God counted him as righteous.

New Life Bible
Abraham put his trust in God and was made right with Him.

New Revised Standard
Therefore his faith "was reckoned to him as righteousness."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore also, it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

Revised Standard Version
That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And therfore was it reckened to him for rightewesnes.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And therfore was it rekened vnto him for righteousnes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Because of this confidence, God looked at him as righteous.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!" ¹⁹Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That's why it is said, "Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right." But it's not just Abraham; it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it was imputed: Romans 4:3, Romans 4:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:6 - he counted Romans 3:22 - unto all Romans 9:30 - even the righteousness Galatians 3:6 - as James 2:23 - Abraham

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Not because his faith was strong, and he had a full assurance of it, but because it was right, resting on the promise of God, and relying upon his power and faithfulness to perform it; for though the righteousness of faith is not imputed to any sort of believers, not to mere nominal ones, yet to all such as have true faith, though it may be but weak; for faith, as to nature, kind, and object, though not as to degree, is the same in all true believers, and the same righteousness is imputed to one as to another.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And therefore - His faith was so implicit, and so unwavering, that it was a demonstration that he was the firm friend of God. He was tried, and he had such confidence in God that he showed that he was supremely attached to him, and would obey and serve him. This was reckoned as a full proof of friendship; and he was recognised and treated as righteous; that is, as the friend of God. (The true sense of faith being imputed for righteousness is given in a note at the beginning of the chapter.) See the note at Romans 4:3, Romans 4:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness — The verse is thus paraphrased by Dr. Taylor: "For which reason God was graciously pleased to place his faith to his account; and to allow his fiducial reliance upon the Divine goodness, power, and faithfulness, for a title to the Divine blessing, which, otherwise, having been an idolater, he had no right to."

Abraham's strong faith in the promise of the coming Saviour, for this was essential to his faith, was reckoned to him for justification: for it is not said that any righteousness, either his own, or that of another, was imputed or reckoned to him for justification; but it, i.e. his faith in God. His faith was fully persuaded of the most merciful intentions of God's goodness; and this, which, in effect, laid hold on Jesus Christ, the future Saviour, was the means of his justification; being reckoned unto him in the place of personal righteousness, because it laid hold on the merit of Him who died to make an atonement for our offences, and rose again for our justification.