Romans 4:5

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But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in him. Then he accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him. He is the one who makes even evil people right.

Cross References

Philippians 3:9

I want to belong to him. In Christ I am right with God, but my being right does not come from following the law. It comes from God through faith. God uses my faith in Christ to make me right with him.

Romans 3:22

God makes people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. He does this for all who believe in Christ. Everyone is the same.

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 4:24

They were also written for us. God will also accept us because we believe. We believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from death.

Romans 4:3

That’s why the Scriptures say, “Abraham believed God, and because of this he was accepted as one who is right with God.”

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “The work God wants you to do is this: to believe in the one he sent.”

John 5:24

“I assure you, anyone who hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life. They will not be judged guilty. They have already left death and have entered into life.

Habakkuk 2:4

This message cannot help those who refuse to listen to it, but those who are good will live because they believe it.

Joshua 24:2

Then Joshua spoke to all the people. He said, “I am telling you what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you: ‘A long time ago, your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River. I am talking about men like Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor. At that time they worshiped other gods.

Mark 9:23

Jesus said to the father, “Why did you say ‘if you can’? All things are possible for the one who believes.”

Romans 4:6

David said the same thing when he was talking about the blessing people have when God accepts them as good without looking at what they have done: