Galatians 3:6
4 Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
5 Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.
8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
- KJV
- Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
- WEB
- Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
- ASV
- Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
- DARBY
- Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
- BLB
- just as, “Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him for righteousness”?
- ÅB
- Slik som Abraham trodde Gud, og det ble regnet ham til rettferdighet.
- OTB
- Slik som Abraham trodde Gud, og det ble regnet ham til rettferdighet.
- B1930
- Likesom Abraham trodde Gud, og det blev regnet ham til rettferdighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Read in contextRomans 4:21–22
being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.
Read in contextJames 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
Read in contextRomans 4:3–6
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Read in contextRomans 4:24
but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
Read in contextRomans 4:9–11
Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
Read in contextGalatians 3:9
So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Read in contextRomans 9:32–33
Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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