Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
King James Version
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Holman Bible
Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the man God credits righteousness to apart from works:
International Standard Version
Likewise, David also speaks of the blessedness of the person whom God regards as righteous apart from actions:
A Conservative Version
Just as David also tells the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness independent of works,
American Standard Version
Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,
Amplified
And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
An Understandable Version
Even King David also spoke of the blessing experienced by the person who was considered righteous by God apart from doing good deeds.
Anderson New Testament
Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God counts righteousness without works, saying:
Bible in Basic English
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
Common New Testament
So also David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
Daniel Mace New Testament
even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works,
Darby Translation
Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:
Godbey New Testament
Indeed David also speaks of the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works,
Goodspeed New Testament
So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,
John Wesley New Testament
So David also describeth the happiness of the man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works:
Julia Smith Translation
As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works,
King James 2000
Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works,
Lexham Expanded Bible
just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Modern King James verseion
Even as David also says of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness without works,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even as David describeth the blessedfulness of the man, unto whom God ascribeth righteousness without deeds,
Moffatt New Testament
Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!
Montgomery New Testament
Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from actions.
NET Bible
So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
New Heart English Bible
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
Noyes New Testament
as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous without works:
Sawyer New Testament
As David describes the blessedness of the man to whom the Lord accounts righteousness without works,
The Emphasized Bible
Just as David also affirmeth the happiness of the man unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
As David also describeth the blessedness of that man, to whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Twentieth Century New Testament
In precisely the same way David speaks of the blessing pronounced upon the man who is regarded by God as righteous apart from actions--
Webster
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Weymouth New Testament
In this way David also tells of the blessedness of the man to whose credit God places righteousness, apart from his actions.
Williams New Testament
So David, too, describes the happiness of the man to whom God credits right standing with Himself, without the things he does having anything to do with it:
World English Bible
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
Worrell New Testament
Even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckoneth righteousness, apart from works,
Worsley New Testament
As David also describeth the blessedness of the man to whom: God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,
Youngs Literal Translation
even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:
Themes
Bigotry » Paul's argument against
the Blessed » To whom God imputes righteousness without works
Forgiveness » Those whose iniquities are forgiven
Righteousness » Blessedness of » Having imputed, without works
Interlinear
Hos
Logizomai
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 4:6
Images Romans 4:6
Prayers for Romans 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness
5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs."
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Psalm 112:1
Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Psalm 146:5-6
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
Isaiah 45:24-25
"Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
Isaiah 54:17
no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Jeremiah 22:6
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 surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.
Jeremiah 33:16
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.'
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Matthew 5:3-12
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Romans 3:20-22
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:27
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Romans 4:24
but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Romans 5:18-19
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Galatians 3:8-9
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Galatians 3:14
so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Galatians 4:15
What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith--
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Peter 1:1
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: