Romans 4:7
5 However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6 And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
9 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- KJV
- Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
- WEB
- “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- ASV
- [saying], Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
- DARBY
- Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
- BLB
- “Blessed [are] [those] whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
- ÅB
- «Salige er de som har fått overtredelsene sine tilgitt,
og syndene sine skjult. - OTB
- "Salige er de
hvis overtredelser er tilgitt,
hvis synder er dekket til. - B1930
- Salige er de hvis overtredelser er forlatt, og hvis synder er skjult,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 32:1–2
Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Read in contextPsalms 130:3–4
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Read in contextLuke 7:47–50
Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
Read in contextPsalms 85:2
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
Read in contextMicah 7:18–20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Read in contextPsalms 51:8–9
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:1–2
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
Read in contextJeremiah 33:8–9
And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
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