Galatians 3:6
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6 Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”(A)
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Genesis 15:6
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6 And he believed the Lord, and the Lord[a] reckoned it to him as righteousness.
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- 15.6 Heb he
Romans 4:21-22
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21 being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.(A) 22 Therefore “it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
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James 2:23
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23 Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”[a] and he was called the friend of God.(A)
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Romans 4:24
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24 but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe[a] in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,(A)
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- 4.24 Or trust
Romans 4:3-6
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3 For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed[a] God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”(A) 4 Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due.(B) 5 But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness. 6 So also David pronounces a blessing on those to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
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- 4.3 Or trusted in
Romans 4:9-11
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9 Is this blessing, then, pronounced only on the circumcised or also on the uncircumcised? We say, “Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.” 10 How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but before he was circumcised. 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith[a] while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe[b] without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,(A)
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Galatians 3:9
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9 For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.
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2 Corinthians 5:19-21
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19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,[a] not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.(A) 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.(B) 21 For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(C)
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- 5.19 Or God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself
Romans 9:32-33
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32 Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,(A) 33 as it is written,
“See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall,
and whoever trusts in him[a] will not be put to shame.”(B)
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