Romans 4:23

New American Bible - revised edition

But it was not for him alone that it was written that “it was credited to him”;

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For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.