Romans 4:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 (A)For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a] 4 A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.(B) 5 But when one does not work, yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
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- 4:3 Jas 2:24 appears to conflict with Paul’s statement. However, James combats the error of extremists who used the doctrine of justification through faith as a screen for moral self-determination. Paul discusses the subject of holiness in greater detail than does James and beginning with Rom 6 shows how justification through faith introduces one to the gift of a new life in Christ through the power of the holy Spirit.
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