For what does the Scripture say? (A)“Abraham believed God, and it was [a]accounted to him for righteousness.”

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  1. Romans 4:3 imputed, credited, reckoned, counted

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

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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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  1. James 2:23 credited

Abraham Justified Before Circumcision

Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

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just as Abraham (A)“believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Therefore know that only (B)those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And (C)the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, (D)“In you all the nations shall be blessed.”

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David Celebrates the Same Truth

But to him who (A)does not work but believes on Him who justifies (B)the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

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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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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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31 And that was accounted to him (A)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

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11 For the Scripture says, (A)“Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

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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, 25 (D)who was delivered up because of our offenses, and (E)was raised because of our justification.

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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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20 (A)To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because (B)there[a] is no light in them.

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  1. Isaiah 8:20 Or they have no dawn

20 knowing this first, that (A)no prophecy of Scripture is of any private [a]interpretation, 21 for (B)prophecy never came by the will of man, (C)but [b]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

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  1. 2 Peter 1:20 Or origin
  2. 2 Peter 1:21 NU men spoke from God

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, (A)“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

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10 Have you not even read this Scripture:

(A)‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.

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