Romans 4:6

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Summary

Romans 4:6

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

Blessedness

Imputeth

Without

Romans 3:20

Ephesians 2:8

2 Timothy 1:9

Bible References

Blessedness

Is this blessing then on

the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

“Blessed are you, O Israel;

Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,

Who is the shield of your help

And the sword of your majesty!

So your enemies will cringe before you,

And you will tread upon their high places.”

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the

path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

Praise the Lord!

How blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who greatly delights in His commandments.

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

“

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.”

Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Imputeth

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “

But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

“They will say of Me, ‘Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength.’
Men will come to Him,
And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are like Gilead to Me,
Like the summit of Lebanon;
Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,
Like cities which are not inhabited.

In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she will be called: the Lord is our righteousness.’

“Seventy

weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Without

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for

through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,