6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. …
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. …
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-18)The apostle having reproved the Galatians for not obeying the truth, and endeavoured to impress them with a sense of their folly herein, in these verses he largely proves the doctrine which he had reproved them for rejecting, namely, that of justification by faith without the works of the law. This he does several ways. I. From the example of Abraham’s justification. This argument the apostle uses…
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