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David also wrote about the same thing. He describes those people that God has accepted as right with himself. God has not accepted them because they have done good things, but as his gift to them. David tells us how happy people like that are. David says:

‘The people that God has forgiven are really happy.
They have done wrong things, but he has forgiven them.
A person is really happy when the Lord accepts him.
The Lord does not think about that person's sin any more.’[a]

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  1. 4:8 See Psalms 32:1-2.

David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one
    whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 4:8 Psalm 32:1,2