6Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
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Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: …
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here the apostle proves that Abraham was justified not by works, but by faith. Those that of all men contended most vigorously for a share in righteousness by the privileges they enjoyed, and the works they performed, were the Jews, and therefore he appeals to the case of Abraham their father, and puts his own name to the relation, being a Hebrew of the Hebrews: Abraham our father . Now surely his…
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