Romans 4 (NET)

Romans 4:1¹What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:2Rom 4:162 Cor 11:22Acts 13:26John 8:56Luke 3:8Matt 3:9Rom 7:7John 8:33John 8:37-41

Romans 4:2²For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:312 Cor 11:30Phil 3:9Eph 2:9Gal 3:221 Cor 1:291 Cor 9:162 Cor 12:1-9Gal 6:13-14Rom 3:20-28

Romans 4:3³For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:6Jas 2:23Gal 3:6-8Rom 4:9Rom 4:22-25Rom 4:5Ps 106:31Rom 4:11Rom 11:2Rom 10:11

Romans 4:4⁴Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:6Rom 9:32Rom 11:35Matt 20:1-16

Romans 4:5⁵But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:9Rom 3:22Titus 3:3-7Rom 10:9-10Gal 3:8-14Rom 10:3Gal 2:16-171 Cor 6:9-11John 5:24John 6:29

Romans 4:6⁶So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:9Eph 2:8-10Phil 3:9Gal 3:8-91 Cor 1:302 Cor 5:21Isa 45:24-25Rom 3:20-22Rom 5:18-19Eph 1:3

Romans 4:7⁷“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 32:1-2Ps 130:3-4Luke 7:47-50Mic 7:18-20Ps 85:2Isa 40:1-2Ps 51:8-9Jer 33:8-9Matt 9:2

Romans 4:8⁸blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 32:21 Pet 2:242 Cor 5:19-201 Pet 3:18Isa 53:10-12

Romans 4:9⁹Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say, “faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:14Col 3:11Eph 3:8Gal 3:26-28Rom 4:3Eph 2:11-13Rom 10:12-13Rom 15:8-19Rom 3:29-30Isa 49:6

Romans 4:10¹⁰How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:15Gal 5:61 Cor 7:18-19Gen 15:16Gen 15:5-6Gen 16:1-3Gen 17:1Gen 17:10Gen 17:23-27

Romans 4:11¹¹And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:9Rom 3:222 Cor 1:22Heb 11:7Eph 1:13Eph 4:30Gal 3:22Gal 3:29Gal 3:7Gal 5:5

Romans 4:12¹²And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:39-40Prov 2:20Song 1:81 Pet 2:212 Cor 12:18Gal 4:22-31Job 33:11Luke 16:23-31Rom 9:6-7

Romans 4:13¹³For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:29Gen 28:14Gen 22:17-18Rom 9:8Ps 2:8Gen 17:4-6Gal 3:16-18Gen 17:16Gen 12:3Gen 49:10

Romans 4:14¹⁴For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:18-24Heb 7:19Phil 3:9Gal 2:21Heb 7:28Isa 55:11Rom 3:31Rom 4:16Gal 5:4Jer 19:7

Romans 4:15¹⁵For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 5:13Gal 3:101 Cor 15:56Rom 3:19-20Rom 7:7-25Gal 3:19John 3:361 John 3:42 Cor 3:7-9Eph 5:6

Romans 4:16¹⁶For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants—not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us allCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:24-26Eph 2:8Rom 9:8Gal 3:22Titus 3:7Eph 2:5Isa 51:2Rom 15:8Rom 5:12 Pet 1:10

Romans 4:17¹⁷(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations ”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed—the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:28Gen 17:4-5John 5:21Rom 8:29-30John 6:631 Pet 2:10Eph 2:1-5Rom 8:11John 5:25Heb 11:12

Romans 4:18¹⁸Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:24Gen 15:5-6Rom 5:5Acts 27:25Mark 5:35-36Prov 13:12Ezek 37:11Rom 4:17Luke 1:18Ruth 1:11-13

Romans 4:19¹⁹Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about 100 years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:11-19Gen 17:17Rom 4:20-21Gen 18:11-14John 20:27-28Mark 9:23-24Matt 14:31Matt 6:30Matt 8:26Rom 14:21

Romans 4:20²⁰He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:451 Cor 16:132 Cor 12:10Dan 10:192 Tim 2:1Isa 35:4Isa 7:92 Chr 20:15-202 Kgs 7:19Hag 2:4

Romans 4:21²¹He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 1:37Jer 32:27Heb 11:19Jer 32:17Luke 1:45Gen 18:142 Tim 1:12Matt 19:262 Cor 9:8Ps 115:3

Romans 4:22²²So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 4:3Rom 4:6

Romans 4:23²³But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:11Rom 15:41 Cor 10:62 Tim 3:16-171 Cor 9:9-10

Romans 4:24²⁴but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 2:241 Pet 1:21Acts 13:30Rom 10:9-10Acts 2:39Eph 1:18-20Heb 13:20-21John 3:14-16Mark 16:16

Romans 4:25²⁵He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of our justification.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:9-10Isa 53:5-62 Cor 5:21Gal 1:41 John 2:21 Pet 2:241 Pet 3:18Eph 5:21 Cor 15:17Rom 5:6-8