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But no person can work to put himself right with God. It is God alone who makes a bad person right. The one who believes in him - even a bad person is put right.

David also says that God blesses a man. God calls him a good man but not because he has kept the law.

David said, `God blesses people who have been forgiven the wrong things they have done. God covers over the wrong things they have done.

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However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.(A) David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

“Blessed are those
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.

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