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David also says that God blesses a man. God calls him a good man but not because he has kept the law.

David said, `God blesses people who have been forgiven the wrong things they have done. God covers over the wrong things they have done.

The Lord blesses people when he forgets the wrong things they have done.'

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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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Footnotes

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