Romans 4:3
Greek Text— Romans 4:3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
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Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor sandals, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.
So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.