justas Davidalsospeaksof the blessingon the manto whomGodcreditsrighteousnessapartfrom works:
Praisethe LORD!How blessedis the manwho fearsthe LORD,Who greatlydelightsin His commandments.
"Noweaponthat is formedagainstyou will prosper;And everytonguethat accusesyou in judgmentyou will condemn.Thisis the heritageof the servantsof the LORD,And their vindicationis from Me," declaresthe LORD.
For thussaysthe LORDconcerningthe houseof the kingof Judah:"You are [like] Gileadto Me, [Like] the summitof Lebanon;Yet mostassuredlyI will makeyou like a wilderness,[Like] citieswhich are not inhabited.
In thosedaysJudahwill be savedand Jerusalemwill dwellin safety;and thisis [the name] by whichshe will be called:the LORDis our righteousness.'
"Seventyweekshave been decreedfor your peopleand your holycity,to finishthe transgression,to makean endof sin,to makeatonementfor iniquity,to bringin everlastingrighteousness,to sealup visionand prophecyand to anointthe mostholy[place].
"Nowaftera longtimethe masterof thoseslavescameand settledaccountswith them.
For in it [the] righteousnessof Godis revealedfrom faithto faith;as it is written,"BUT THE RIGHTEOUS[man] SHALL LIVEBY FAITH."
Wherethenis boasting?It is excluded.By what kindof law?Of works?No,but by a lawof faith.
and he receivedthe signof circumcision,a sealof the righteousnessof the faithwhich he had while uncircumcised,sothat he might be the fatherof allwho believewithout being circumcised,that righteousnessmight be creditedto them,
but for our sakealso,to whomit willbe credited,as thosewho believein Him who raisedJesusour Lordfrom the dead,
But to the one who does not work,but believesin Him who justifiesthe ungodly,his faithis creditedas righteousness,
"BLESSEDARE THOSE WHOSELAWLESS DEEDSHAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,AND WHOSESINSHAVE BEEN COVERED.
Is thisblessingthenon the circumcised,oron the uncircumcisedalso?For we say,"FAITHWAS CREDITEDTO ABRAHAMAS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
But by His doing you are in ChristJesus,whobecameto us wisdomfrom God,and righteousnessand sanctification,and redemption,
He madeHim who knewnosin[to be] sinon our behalf,sothat we might becomethe righteousnessof Godin Him.
in orderthat in ChristJesusthe blessingof Abrahammight cometo the Gentiles,sothat we would receivethe promiseof the Spiritthroughfaith.
Wherethenis that sense of blessingyou had? For I bear you witnessthat, ifpossible,you would have pluckedout your eyesand giventhem to me.
Blessed[be] the Godand Fatherof our LordJesusChrist,who has blessedus with everyspiritualblessingin the heavenly[places] in Christ,
"Blessedare you, O Israel;Whois likeyou, a peoplesavedby the LORD,Who is the shieldof your helpAnd the swordof your majesty!So your enemieswill cringebefore you, And you will treadupon their highplaces."
and may be foundin Him, not havinga righteousnessof my ownderivedfrom [the] Law,but that which is throughfaithin Christ,the righteousnesswhich [comes] from Godon the basisof faith,
who has savedus and calledus with a holycalling,not accordingto our works,but accordingto His ownpurposeand gracewhich was grantedus in ChristJesusfrom alleternity,
But someonemay [well] say,"You havefaithand I haveworks;showme your faithwithoutthe works,and I will showyou my faithby my works."
SimonPeter,a bond-servantand apostleof JesusChrist,To thosewho have receiveda faithof the same kindas ours,by the righteousnessof our Godand Savior,JesusChrist:
