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(A)For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a] A worker’s wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due.(B) 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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Footnotes

  1. 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.

What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a](A)

Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift(B) but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:3 Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22