the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Romans 4:7
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Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgivenand whose sins are covered.
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered.
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
"Blessed are they whose sins are forgiven, whose wrongs are pardoned.
"BLESSED and HAPPY and FAVORED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS ACTS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED UP and COMPLETELY BURIED.
"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,And whose sins have been covered.
"Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
"God blesses people whose sins are forgiven and whose evil deeds are forgotten.
"Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered over;
Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
"It is a great blessing when people are forgiven for the wrongs they have done, when their sins are erased!
Blessed are they, whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered.
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are wiped away.
"Happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven, whose sins are pardoned!
"Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.
"Blessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered.
"How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgivenPsalm 32:1-2;">[xr] and whose sins are covered!
Blessed are they whose iniquity is forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
saying: Blessed are they, whose iniquity is forgiven, and whose sins are covered up:
Blessed are they whose vnrighteousnesse are forgeuen, & whose sinnes are couered.
saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, Whose sins are covered.
Happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Blessid ben thei, whos wickidnessis ben foryouun, and whos synnes ben hid.
[saying], Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
[Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
" Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered;
"Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight.
"Those people are happy whose sinful acts are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Happy, they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Blessed are they whose vnrightewesnes are forgeven and whose synnes are covered.
`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;
Blessed are they, whose vnrighteousnesses are forgeuen, and whose synnes are couered.
" happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
"Blessed are them whose screwups are forgotten, whose sins are forgiven.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 32:1, Psalms 32:2, Psalms 51:8, Psalms 51:9, Psalms 85:2, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4, Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Jeremiah 33:8, Jeremiah 33:9, Micah 7:18-20, Matthew 9:2, Luke 7:47-50
Reciprocal: Genesis 28:4 - the blessing Exodus 34:7 - forgiving Numbers 22:12 - for they Numbers 23:21 - hath not Romans 7:17 - it is no more Romans 8:1 - no 1 John 2:12 - your
Cross-References
but that in every nation those who fear Him and live good lives are acceptable to Him.
Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?
I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.
and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes pleasure in him, and men highly commend him.
that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is) an offering which the Holy Spirit has made holy.
to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.
Through faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain did, and through this faith he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it, though he is dead, he still speaks.
Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.
And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Saying, blessed are they,.... These words are cited from
Psalms 32:1, and contain the proof of the happiness of justified persons. In this citation the singular number is changed into the plural, to take in all sorts of men, Jews and Gentiles, and very agreeably to the sense of the original; for the word אשרי may be rendered "blessed are they", or, "O the blessednesses"; that is, of everyone of them,
whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered: such whom God justifies by imputing the righteousness of his Son to them, he removes their iniquities from them, which is meant by their being "forgiven", and that "as far as the east is from the west", Psalms 103:12; he casts them behind his back, Isaiah 38:17, and into the depths of the sea, Micah 7:19, so that they shall never be found more: such whom he clothes with the robe of righteousness, and garments of salvation,
Isaiah 61:10, "their sins are covered"; from the eye of divine justice, and shall never be seen more, or be brought against them to their condemnation, and therefore must be happy persons. The e Jews tell us, that
"on the day of atonement Satan comes to accuse Israel, and he particularizes their sins, and the holy blessed God he particularizes their good works, and takes a pair of balances, and puts their sins against their good works, and weighs the one against the other; and when the two scales of the balances are alike, Satan goes to bring in other sins to overweigh; what does the holy blessed God do? he takes the sins out of the scale, and hides them שלו
תחת פורפירי, "under his purple garment"; and when Satan comes and finds no iniquity there, as it is said "the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none", Jeremiah 50:20; and when Satan sees this, he says before him, Lord of the world, "thou hast taken away the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin", Psalms 85:2. Selah.''
The purple garment they explain by מלבוש של רחמים שלו, "his garment of mercy"; which is true of the mercy of God covering the sins of his people, through the purple blood of his Son; which is the purple covering of Christ, Song of Solomon 3:10, under which the saints go safe to glory, and by which blood their crimson and scarlet sins are blotted out, so as never to be seen more.
e Caphtor, fol. 59. 1, 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Blessed - Happy are they: they are highly favored; see the note at Matthew 5:3.
Whose sins are covered - Are concealed; or hidden from the view. On which God will no more look, and which he will no more remember. “By these words,” says Calvin (in loco), “we are taught that justification with Paul is nothing else but pardon of sin.” The word “cover” here has no reference to the atonement, but is expressive of hiding, or concealing that is, of forgiving sin.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 4:7. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven — That is, the man is truly happy whose iniquities αιανομιαι, whose transgressions of the law are forgiven; for by these he was exposed to the most grievous punishment. Whose sins, αιαμαρτιαι, his innumerable deviations from the strict rule of truth and righteousness, are covered-entirely removed out of sight, and thrown into oblivion. See the meaning of the word sin in Clarke's note on "Genesis 13:13".
