Romans 4:5-7

New Testament for Everyone

⁵But if someone doesn’t “work,” but simply believes in the one who declares the ungodly to be in the right, that person’s faith is calculated in their favor, putting them in the right.

⁶We see the same thing when David speaks of the blessing that comes to someone whom God calculates to be in the right apart from works:

⁷Blessed are those whose lawbreaking is forgiven
and whose sins have been covered over;