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Romans 4:8

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abraham;   Bigotry;   Catholicity;   Faith;   Justification;   Quotations and Allusions;   Salvation;   Sin;   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Grace;   Imputation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blessed, the;   Justification before God;   Pardon;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Jesus christ;   Justification;   Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blessing;   Genesis, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Justification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Impute;   Justification;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Impute, Imputation;   Justification;   Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Grace;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Justification, Justify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blessedness;   James Epistle of;   Law;   Lord;   Master;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Impute, to,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Impute;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imputation;   Justification;   Psalms, Book of;   Quotations, New Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
It is a great blessing when the Lord accepts people as if they are without 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 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 What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter? 2 For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture say? " Abraham believed God , and it was credited to him as righteousness ." 4 Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness. 6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 " Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count 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 the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord .
Genesis 4:6
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he replied, "I don't know! Am I my brother's guardian?"
Genesis 4:10
But the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
Genesis 4:12
When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 4:15
But the Lord said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"
Genesis 4:26
And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord .
2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 14:6
Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

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.


 
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