Romans 4:4-6

Expanded Bible

⁴ When people work, their ·pay [wage] is not ·given [credited; counted] as ·a gift [grace], but as something ·earned [due to them]. ⁵ ·But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in him [^LBut for the one who does not work, but trusts in God], who ·makes even evil people right in his sight [justifies/makes righteous the ungodly]. Then God ·accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him [^Lcredits/counts their faith for righteousness]. ⁶ David said the same thing. He said that people are ·truly blessed [happy; spiritually fulfilled] when God, ·without paying attention to their deeds [apart from works], ·makes people right with himself [^Lcredits/counts righteousness to them].