Other translations
American Standard Version
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Just as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness,
Darby Bible Translation
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
God's Word
Abraham serves as an example. He believed God, and that faith was regarded by God to be his approval of Abraham.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,
International Standard Version
In the same way, Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
NET Bible
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
New American Standard Bible
Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
New International Version
So also Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
New Living Translation
In the same way, "Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith."
Webster's Bible Translation
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Weymouth New Testament
even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?
The World English Bible
Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."
EasyEnglish Bible
Think about our Jewish ancestor Abraham. We know this: ‘Abraham believed God. As a result, God accepted Abraham as right with him’.
Young‘s Literal Translation
according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;
New Life Version
It was the same with Abraham. He put his trust in God. This made Abraham right with God.
Revised Geneva Translation
Rather, as Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness,
The Voice Bible
You remember Abraham. Scripture tells us, “Abraham believed God and trusted in His promises, so God counted it to his favor as righteousness.”
Living Bible
Abraham had the same experience—God declared him fit for heaven only because he believed God’s promises.
New Catholic Bible
Thus Abraham believed in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Legacy Standard Bible
Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness,
Jubilee Bible 2000
Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Christian Standard Bible
just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?
Amplified Bible © 1954
Thus Abraham believed in and adhered to and trusted in and relied on God, and it was reckoned and placed to his account and credited as righteousness (as conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action).
New Century Version
The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham: “Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God.”
The Message
Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you? Don’t these things happen among you just as they happened with Abraham? He believed God, and that act of belief was turned into a life that was right with God.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
in the same way as Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness”?
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament
Consider Abraham: “He believed · God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”
New Matthew Bible
It is even as Abraham believed God, and it was ascribed to him for righteousness.
Good News Translation®
Consider the experience of Abraham; as the scripture says, “He believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous.”
Wycliffe Bible
As it is written, Abraham believed to God, and it was reckoned to him to rightwiseness.
New Testament for Everyone
It’s like Abraham. “He believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
Contemporary English Version
The Scriptures say that God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
J.B. Phillips New Testament
You can go right back to Abraham to see the principle of faith in God. He, we are told, ‘believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Just as Abraham ‘believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness’,
Common English Bible © 2011
Understand that in the same way that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness,
Amplified Bible © 2015
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, [as conformity to God’s will and purpose—so it is with you also].
English Standard Version Anglicised
just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
New American Standard Bible
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
The Expanded Bible
·The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham [L Just as (it says)]: “Abraham believed God, and ·God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God [L it (Abraham’s faith) was credited to him as righteousness; Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4].”
Tree of Life Version
Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”
Revised Standard Version
Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
New International Reader's Version
In the same way, Abraham “believed God. God was pleased with Abraham because he believed. So his faith made him right with God.” (Genesis 15:6)
BRG Bible
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Complete Jewish Bible
It was the same with Avraham: “He trusted in God and was faithful to him, and that was credited to his account as righteousness.”
Worldwide English (New Testament)
So it was with Abraham. The holy writings say `He believed God, and that was why God called him a good man.'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Just as Abraham ‘believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness’,
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Just as Avraham Avinu HE’EMIN BA’HASHEM VAYACHSHEVEHA LO TZDAKAH ("believed Hashem and it [his faith] was accounted to him for righteousness" BERESHIS 15:6),
Names of God Bible
Abraham serves as an example. He believed God, and that faith was regarded as the basis of Abraham’s approval by God.
Modern English Version
Even Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Easy-to-Read Version
The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham. “Abraham believed God, and because of this faith he was accepted as one who is right with God.”
International Children’s Bible
The Scriptures say the same thing about Abraham: “Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God.”
Lexham English Bible
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,
New International Version - UK
So also Abraham ‘believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’
Disciples Literal New Testament
Just as Abraham “ believed God and it was credited to him for righteousness” [Gen 15:6],