Galatians 3:6

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Galatians 3:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

5 Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

6 So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

7 Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

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Galatians 3:9

So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Genesis 15:6

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Romans 4:3

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Romans 4:4

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

Romans 4:5

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 4:6

And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Romans 4:9

Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

Romans 4:10

In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

Romans 4:21

being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Romans 4:22

This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Romans 9:32

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Romans 9:33

as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

James 2:23

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

Romans 4:11

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

Romans 4:24

but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

2 Corinthians 5:19

that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.