Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Romans 4:6 in context
Romans 4:3–9
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For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
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Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
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But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
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Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
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“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
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Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
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Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
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