Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For what doth the Scripture say? And Abraham believed in God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
For what does the Scripture say? “
King James Version
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Holman Bible
For what does the Scripture say?
and it was credited to him for righteousness.
International Standard Version
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
A Conservative Version
For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
American Standard Version
For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
Amplified
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed in (trusted, relied on) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living, right standing with God).”
An Understandable Version
For what does the Scripture say? [Gen. 15:6 says], "And Abraham believed God, so God considered him righteous."
Anderson New Testament
For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
Common New Testament
For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
Darby Translation
for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
Godbey New Testament
For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.
Goodspeed New Testament
for what does the Scripture say? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as uprightness."
John Wesley New Testament
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.
King James 2000
For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness."
Modern King James verseion
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness."
Moffatt New Testament
For what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and this was counted to him as righteousness.
Montgomery New Testament
For what does Scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was set down to his account as righteousness.
NET Bible
For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
New Heart English Bible
For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
Noyes New Testament
For what saith the scripture? "Abraham had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness."
Sawyer New Testament
For what says the Scripture? And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For what doth the scripture say? Abraham truly believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For what are the words of Scripture? 'Abraham had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.'
Webster
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Weymouth New Testament
For what says the Scripture? "And Abraham believed God, and this was placed to his credit as righteousness."
Williams New Testament
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God."
World English Bible
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
Worrell New Testament
For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness."
Worsley New Testament
for what saith the scripture? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
Youngs Literal Translation
for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'
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Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness
2 For, if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath whereof to boast; - nevertheless, not towards God, - 3 For what doth the Scripture say? And Abraham believed in God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness. 4 Now, unto him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned by way of favour but by way of obligation,
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Cross References
Genesis 15:6
And he had faith in Yahweh, - so he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Romans 4:9
This happiness, then, is it for the circumcision, or for the uncircumcision? for we say - His faith was reckoned unto Abraham as righteousness:
James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith - And Abraham believed God, And it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and, God's friend, was he called:
Romans 4:5
Whereas, unto him that worketh not but believeth on him that declareth righteous the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
Psalm 106:31
So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, It is , because they have no dawning day.
Mark 12:10
Have ye not, this scripture, read - A stone which the builders rejected, the same, hath become head of the corner!
Romans 4:11
And, a sign, he received namely of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while yet uncircumcised; to the end he might be father of all that believe during uncircumcision, to the end the same righteousness might be reckoned unto them, -
Romans 4:22-25
Wherefore also, it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.
Romans 9:17
For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh - Unto this end, have I raised thee up, that I may thus shew in thee my power, and that I may declare my name in all the earth.
Romans 10:11
For the scripture saith - No one that resteth faith thereupon, shall be put to shame?
Romans 11:2
God hath not cast off his people, whom he fore approved. Or know ye not, in the account of Elijah what the scripture saith, when he intercedeth with God against Israel?
Galatians 3:6-8
Even as Abraham - believed in God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.
James 4:5
Or think ye that, in vain, the scripture speaketh? Is it, for envying, that the spirit which hath taken an abode within us doth crave?
2 Peter 1:20-21
Of this, first, taking note - that, no prophecy of scripture, becometh, self-solving;