Romans 4:8

Easy-to-Read Version

It is a great blessing when the Lord accepts people as if they are without sin!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Blessed is the personthe Lord will never charge with sin.

King James Version (1611)
Blessed is the man to whome the Lord will not impute sinne.

King James Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

English Standard Version
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin."

New American Standard Bible
"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

New Century Version
Blessed is the person whom the Lord does not consider guilty." Psalm 32:1–2

Amplified Bible
"BLESSED and HAPPY and FAVORED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT nor CHARGE AGAINST HIM."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account."

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."

Contemporary English Version
The Lord blesses people whose sins are erased from his book."

Complete Jewish Bible
Blessed is the man whose sin Adonai will not reckon against his account."

Darby Translation
blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed is the man whose sins God will not hold against him.

Good News Translation
Happy is the person whose sins the Lord will not keep account of!"

Lexham English Bible
Blessed is the person against whom the Lord will never count sin."

Literal Translation
blessed the man to whom the Lord will in no way charge sin." LXX-Psa. 31:1, 2; MT-Psa. 32:1, 2

American Standard Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.

Bible in Basic English
Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

International Standard Version
How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!"Psalm 32:1-2">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
Blessed is the man to whom Aloha reckoneth not his sin.

Murdock Translation
and, Blessed is the man, to whom God will not reckon his sin.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed is that man to who the Lorde wyll not impute sinne.

English Revised Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.

World English Bible
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not charge with sin."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Happy is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Weymouth's New Testament
Blessed is the man of whose sin the Lord will not take account."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Blessid is that man, to whom God arettide not synne.

Update Bible Version
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not reckon.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

New English Translation
blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin ."

New King James Version
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin." Psalms 32:1, 2 ">[fn]

New Living Translation
Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord has cleared of sin."

New Life Bible
Those people are happy whose sins the Lord will not remember."

New Revised Standard
blessed is the one against whom the Lord will not reckon sin."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Happy, the man whose sin the Lord will in nowise reckon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

Revised Standard Version
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Blessed is that ma to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.

Young's Literal Translation
happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed is the man, vnto whom the LORDE imputeth no synne.

Mace New Testament (1729)
happy is the man to whom the Lord will not account sin."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Blessed is the cowboy whose sins the Boss won't never hold against him."

Contextual Overview

¹ So what can we say about Abraham, the father of our people? What did he learn about faith? ² If Abraham was made right by the things he did, he had a reason to boast about himself. But God knew different. ³ That's why the Scriptures say, "Abraham believed God, and because of this he was accepted as one who is right with God." ⁴ When people work, their pay is not given to them as a gift. They earn the pay they get. ⁵ But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in him. Then he accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him. He is the one who makes even evil people right. ⁶ David said the same thing when he was talking about the blessing people have when God accepts them as good without looking at what they have done: ⁷ "It is a great blessing when people are forgiven for the wrongs they have done, when their sins are erased! ⁸ It is a great blessing when the Lord accepts people as if they are without sin!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to whom: Isaiah 53:10-12, 2 Corinthians 5:19-20, Philemon 1:18, Philemon 1:19, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 3:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:4 - the blessing Exodus 34:7 - forgiving Numbers 23:21 - hath not 1 Samuel 2:2 - none holy Acts 15:1 - Except Romans 7:17 - it is no more Romans 8:1 - no

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
At harvest time, Cain brought a gift to the Lord . He brought some of the food that he grew from the ground, but Abel brought some animals from his flock. He chose some of his best sheep and brought the best parts from them. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift.

Genesis 4:6
The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why does your face look sad?

Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to watch over my brother?"

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? You killed your brother and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from the ground. So you will be cursed from this ground.

Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."

Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord said to Cain, "No, if anyone kills you, I will punish that person much, much more." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to show that no one should kill him.

Genesis 4:24
The punishment for killing Cain was very bad. But the punishment for killing me will be many times worse!"

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son. He named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner arrived at Hebron, Joab met him in the gateway, pulled him aside to talk in private, and then stabbed him in the stomach. So he got his revenge against Abner. Joab killed Abner because Abner had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 14:6
I had two sons. They were out in the field fighting. There was no one to stop them. One son killed the other son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. As he does not to those whom he justifies in Christ, and by his righteousness; for the sins of such he has imputed to his Son, as their surety; and he has bore them, took them away, having made full satisfaction for them; so that these persons will never be charged with them: they now appear before the throne without fault, and are blameless and irreproveable in the sight of God, and therefore must be eternally happy; for he will never think of their sins any more to their hurt; he will remember them no more; he "will never reckon them to them", but acquit them from them, justify and accept them; wherefore they must be secure from wrath and condemnation, enjoy much peace and comfort now, and be happy hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will not impute sin - On whom the Lord will not charge his sins; or who shall not be reckoned or regarded as guilty. This shows clearly what the apostle meant by imputing faith without works. It is to pardon sin, and to treat with favor; not to reckon or charge a man’s sin to him; but to treat him, though personally undeserving and ungodly Romans 4:5, as though the sin had not been committed. The word “impute” here is used in its natural and appropriate sense, as denoting to charge on man what properly belongs to him. See the note at Romans 4:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 4:8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. — That man is truly happy to whose charge God does not reckon sin; that is, they alone are happy who are redeemed from the curse of the law and the consequence of their ungodly life, by having their sins freely forgiven, through the mercy of God.