Romans 4:5-8

Oh how humbly I come before You… knowing that it is all about Your sacrifice and Your love and not about me. 

Thank You for loving me even when I am unlovable!

God’s interaction with Abraham establishes a pattern for interactions between Him and people. God initiates and provides; people trust and receive. Faithllife Bible.

the NT describes God as being merciful to, or making propitiation, for us. God provides a merciful expiation, or atonement, of the sins of believers through the death of Christ. But since Paul also speaks of God’s wrath, it must also speak of the conciliation of God’s anger by means of a sacrifice—namely, the sacrifice of His Son. John states that God demonstrated His love to us by sending His Son to become “the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Just as in the OT God met His people when the blood of the sin offering was sprinkled on the altar, so Christ’s death brings us into fellowship with God.

God gives righteousness to those who believe. The person who does not work, who comes to God by faith alone without having performed rituals or followed Jewish laws—that person will be counted righteous. Paul continues to build his case that righteousness is apart from works of the law. NKJ Bible.

Romans 4:5–8 (NKJV)

⁵ But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, ⁶ just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

⁷ “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,

And whose sins are covered;

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

Psalm 32:2 (NKJV)

² Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,

And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Galatians 2:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶ knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Ephesians 2:8 (NKJV)

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Romans 4:3 (NKJV)

³ For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”