Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
He said [Psa. 32:1ff], "Those people whose ungodly deeds are forgiven [by God] and whose sins are covered over, are [truly] blessed.
New American Standard Bible
And whose sins have been covered.
King James Version
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Holman Bible
and whose sins are covered!
International Standard Version
"How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered!
A Conservative Version
saying, Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
American Standard Version
saying , Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
Amplified
“Blessed and happy and favored are those whose lawless acts have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered up and completely buried.
Anderson New Testament
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins. are covered.
Bible in Basic English
Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.
Common New Testament
"Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Daniel Mace New Testament
" happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Darby Translation
Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
Godbey New Testament
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Goodspeed New Testament
"Happy are they whose violations of the Law have been forgiven, whose sins are covered up!
John Wesley New Testament
Happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Julia Smith Translation
Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered.
King James 2000
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Blessed [are they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.
Modern King James verseion
saying, "Blessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Blessed are they, whose unrighteousnesses are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
Montgomery New Testament
Blessed he says are they whose iniquities have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered.
NET Bible
"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
New Heart English Bible
"Happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Noyes New Testament
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Sawyer New Testament
Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered;
The Emphasized Bible
Happy, they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
"Blessed are they whose unrighteousnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered up.
Twentieth Century New Testament
'Blessed are those whose wrong-doings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!
Webster
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Weymouth New Testament
"Blessed," he says, "are those whose iniquities have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered over.
Williams New Testament
"Happy are they whose transgressions have been forgiven, whose sins were covered up;
World English Bible
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Worrell New Testament
"Happy are those whose iniquities were forgiven, and whose sins were covered.
Worsley New Testament
"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered:
Youngs Literal Translation
'Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;
Themes
Bigotry » Paul's argument against
the Blessed » To whom God imputes righteousness without works
Interlinear
Hos
Anomia
References
Word Count of 36 Translations in Romans 4:7
Images Romans 4:7
Prayers for Romans 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abraham's Faith Counted As Righteousness
6 Even King David also spoke of the blessing experienced by the person who was considered righteous by God apart from doing good deeds. 7 He said [Psa. 32:1ff], "Those people whose ungodly deeds are forgiven [by God] and whose sins are covered over, are [truly] blessed. 8 That person whose sin will not be held against him by the Lord is [truly] blessed."
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 9:2
[Upon His arrival] they brought to Him a man afflicted with a paralytic disease, [being carried on his cot. See Mark 2:3]. When Jesus saw [the evidence of] their faith [i.e., the man's four friends breaking open the roof and lowering him through it. See Mark 2:4-5], He said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up, your sins are forgiven."
Luke 7:47-50
For this reason, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. [Note: This suggests that her forgiveness was the result of her loving, but the point Jesus makes better fits the idea that her forgiveness produced love]. But the person who is forgiven of little [i.e., of only a few sins], loves [only] a little bit."