Romans 4:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed in (trusted in) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living and right standing with God). [Gen. 15:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

Common English Bible

What does the scripture say? “Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For what does Scripture say? "Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

Romans 4:3 Cross References

Genesis 15:6

And he believed the Lord, and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Psalm 106:31

And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.

Isaiah 8:20

for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!

Matthew 20:9

When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received a denarius.

Mark 12:10

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

Romans 10:11

The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”

Romans 11:2

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 4:11

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the ancestor of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,

Romans 4:5

But to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

Romans 4:9

Is this blessing, then, pronounced only on the circumcised or also on the uncircumcised? We say, “Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.”

Romans 9:17

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I may show my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

James 2:23

Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?