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.

⁶ And he ^(A)believed in the Lord, and He ^(B)accounted it to him for righteousness.

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?

⁶ just as Abraham ^(A)“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

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,

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:

^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.

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.