Romans 4:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Blessed is the personthe Lord will never charge with sin.

King James Version (1611)
Blessed is the man to whome the Lord will not impute sinne.

King James Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

English Standard Version
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin."

New American Standard Bible
"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

New Century Version
Blessed is the person whom the Lord does not consider guilty." Psalm 32:1–2

Amplified Bible
"BLESSED and HAPPY and FAVORED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT nor CHARGE AGAINST HIM."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account."

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."

Contemporary English Version
The Lord blesses people whose sins are erased from his book."

Complete Jewish Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin Adonai will not reckon against his account."

Darby Translation
blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is a great blessing when the Lord accepts people as if they are without sin!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed is the man whose sins God will not hold against him.

Good News Translation
Happy is the person whose sins the Lord will not keep account of!"

Lexham English Bible
Blessed is the person against whom the Lord will never count sin."

Literal Translation
blessed the man to whom the Lord will in no way charge sin." LXX-Psa. 31:1, 2; MT-Psa. 32:1, 2

American Standard Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.

Bible in Basic English
Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

International Standard Version
How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"Psalm 32:1-2">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Blessed is the man to whom Aloha reckoneth not his sin.

Murdock Translation
and, Blessed is the man, to whom God will not reckon his sin.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed is that man to who the Lorde wyll not impute sinne.

English Revised Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.

World English Bible
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not charge with sin."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Weymouth's New Testament
Blessed is the man of whose sin the Lord will not take account."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Blessid is that man, to whom God arettide not synne.

Update Bible Version
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not reckon.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

New English Translation
blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin ."

New King James Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin." Psalms 32:1, 2 ">[fn]

New Living Translation
Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin."

New Life Bible
Those people are happy whose sins the Lord will not remember."

New Revised Standard
blessed is the one against whom the Lord will not reckon sin."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Happy, the man whose sin the Lord will in nowise reckon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

Revised Standard Version
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Blessed is that ma to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.

Young's Literal Translation
happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed is the man, vnto whom the LORDE imputeth no synne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
happy is the man to whom the Lord will not account sin."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Blessed is the cowboy whose sins the Boss won't never hold against him."

Contextual Overview

¹So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things? If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we're given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, "Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own." ⁴If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift. ⁶David 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?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to whom: Isaiah 53:10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:19-20, Philemon 1:18, Philemon 1:19, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:4 - the blessing Exodus 34:7 - forgiving Numbers 23:21 - hath not 1 Samuel 2:2 - none holy Acts 15:1 - Except Romans 7:17 - it is no more Romans 8:1 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and his offering didn't get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a sulk.

Genesis 4:6
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."

Genesis 4:9
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"

Genesis 4:10
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."

Genesis 4:15
God told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.

Matthew 23:35
"You can't squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head. All this, I'm telling you, is coming down on you, on your generation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. As he does not to those whom he justifies in Christ, and by his righteousness; for the sins of such he has imputed to his Son, as their surety; and he has bore them, took them away, having made full satisfaction for them; so that these persons will never be charged with them: they now appear before the throne without fault, and are blameless and irreproveable in the sight of God, and therefore must be eternally happy; for he will never think of their sins any more to their hurt; he will remember them no more; he "will never reckon them to them", but acquit them from them, justify and accept them; wherefore they must be secure from wrath and condemnation, enjoy much peace and comfort now, and be happy hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will not impute sin - On whom the Lord will not charge his sins; or who shall not be reckoned or regarded as guilty. This shows clearly what the apostle meant by imputing faith without works. It is to pardon sin, and to treat with favor; not to reckon or charge a man’s sin to him; but to treat him, though personally undeserving and ungodly Romans 4:5, as though the sin had not been committed. The word “impute” here is used in its natural and appropriate sense, as denoting to charge on man what properly belongs to him. See the note at Romans 4:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 4:8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. — That man is truly happy to whose charge God does not reckon sin; that is, they alone are happy who are redeemed from the curse of the law and the consequence of their ungodly life, by having their sins freely forgiven, through the mercy of God.