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
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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 He who does not work but believes in him who justifies (absolves) the ungodly, his faith is counted for 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.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
You are blessed O Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Jehovah? He 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.
Psalm 1:1-3
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.
Psalm 112:1
Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the person who respects Jehovah and is happy to obey his commandments.
Psalm 146:5-6
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Jehovah his God!
Isaiah 45:24-25
It will be said of me: 'Certainly, righteousness and strength are found in Jehovah alone. All who are angry with him will come to him and be ashamed.
Isaiah 54:17
Weapons forged against you will not prevail! You will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah and this is their vindication from me, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 22:6
Jehovah says concerning the house of the king of Judah: 'You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon. Most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, like cities that are not inhabited.
Jeremiah 33:16
The people of Judah and of Jerusalem will be rescued and will live in safety. The city will be called Jehovah is Our Righteousness.'
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Matthew 5:3-12
Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Romans 1:17
It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
Romans 3:20-22
No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.
Romans 3:27
Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say: To Abraham his faith was counted for righteousness.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that he had while he was not circumcised. That way he could be the father of all those who believe, though they are not circumcised, that righteousness might be counted to them.
Romans 4:24
It is also for our sake, to whom it shall be counted, who believe in him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Romans 5:18-19
The result of one trespass was condemnation for all men. The result of righteousness was justification (acquittal), which brings life for all men.
1 Corinthians 1:30
It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Galatians 3:8-9
The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: In you will all the nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:14
This way the blessing of Abraham might come upon the nations through Christ Jesus and we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 4:15
Where then is your positive attitude? I bear you witness, that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-10
By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God!
Philippians 3:9
I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.
2 Timothy 1:9
God has saved us and called us with a holy calling. This is not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace that was granted us in Christ Jesus, from all eternity.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God, and of our Savior Jesus Christ: