James 2:23
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23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, (A)“Abraham believed God, and it was [a]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called (B)the friend of God.
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- James 2:23 credited
Genesis 15:6
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6 And he (A)believed in the Lord, and He (B)accounted it to him for righteousness.
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Isaiah 41:8
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8 “But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have (A)chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My (B)friend.
2 Chronicles 20:7
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7 Are You not (A)our God, who (B)drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham (C)Your friend forever?
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Galatians 3:6
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6 just as Abraham (A)“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
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Romans 4:22-24
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22 And therefore (A)“it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
23 Now (B)it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, 24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe (C)in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
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Romans 4:3-6
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3 For what does the Scripture say? (A)“Abraham believed God, and it was [a]accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now (B)to him who works, the wages are not counted [b]as grace but as debt.
David Celebrates the Same Truth
5 But to him who (C)does not work but believes on Him who justifies (D)the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also (E)describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:
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- Romans 4:3 imputed, credited, reckoned, counted
- Romans 4:4 according to
Exodus 33:11
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11 So (A)the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but (B)his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
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John 15:13-15
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13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 (B)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, (C)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
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Romans 11:2
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2 God has not cast away His people whom (A)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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Galatians 3:22
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22 But the Scripture has confined (A)all under sin, (B)that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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Galatians 3:8-10
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8 And (A)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, (B)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
The Law Brings a Curse
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, (C)“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
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Romans 4:10-11
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10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11 And (A)he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that (B)he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,
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Job 16:21
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- Job 16:21 friend
Romans 9:17
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17 For (A)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, (B)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
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Luke 4:21
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21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is (A)fulfilled in your hearing.”
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Mark 15:27
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27 (A)With Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left.
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Mark 12:10
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10 Have you not even read this Scripture:
(A)‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
1 Peter 2:6
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6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,
(A)“Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”
2 Timothy 3:16
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16 (A)All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, (B)and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for [a]instruction in righteousness,
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- 2 Timothy 3:16 training, discipline
Acts 1:16
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16 “Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled, (A)which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, (B)who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;
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