Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works,
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,
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
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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 But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputes righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like unto you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellency! and your enemies shall submit unto you; and you shall tread upon their high places.
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
Psalm 112:1
Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalm 146:5-6
Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Isaiah 45:24-25
Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:6
For thus says the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; You are Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you 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 by which it shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Matthew 5:3-12
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 1:17
For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 3:20-22
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh 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? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Romans 4:9
Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Romans 4:24
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
Romans 5:18-19
Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And of him are you 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, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; 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, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations 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 you spoke of? for I bear you witness, that, if it had been possible, you 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 places in Christ:
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace are you 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 world began,
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ: