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:

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Even as
καθάπερ 
Kathaper 
as, even as, as well as
Usage: 13

Δαβίδ 
Dabid 
Usage: 46


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

μακαρισμός 
Makarismos 
Usage: 3

of the man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

λογίζομαι 
Logizomai 
Usage: 40

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

χωρίς 
Choris 
Usage: 38

Images Romans 4:6

Prayers for Romans 4:6

Context Readings

Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness

5 But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the 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 saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:29

Blessed art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency? Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 112:1

Aleph Halelu-JAH. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, Beth that delights greatly in his commandments.

Psalm 146:5-6

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God;

Isaiah 45:24-25

And unto me he shall say, Surely in the LORD is the righteousness and the strength; until he shall come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the slaves of the LORD, and their justice from me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus hath the LORD said regarding the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness and cities which are not inhabited.

Jeremiah 33:16

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name with which she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the prevarication and to conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

Matthew 5:3-12

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

Romans 1:17

For in him is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Romans 3:20-22

For by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:27

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Romans 4:9

Is this blessedness, therefore, only upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.

Romans 4:11

And he received the circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had, yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised believers, that it might be counted unto them also as righteousness,

Romans 4:24

but for us also to whom it shall be so reckoned, that is, to those that believe in him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Romans 5:18-19

Therefore, in the same manner that by the iniquity of one guilt came upon all men unto condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, grace came upon all men unto justification of life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him ye are reborn in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

2 Corinthians 5:21

For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Galatians 3:8-9

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, evangelized Abraham in advance, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

Galatians 3:14

That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 4:15

Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ;

Ephesians 2:8-10

For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

2 Timothy 1:9

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 given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages,

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

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