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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/galatians/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/galatians/3.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />So also Abraham &#8220believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/galatians/3.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />In the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/galatians/3.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/galatians/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/galatians/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />So also, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/galatians/3.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/galatians/3.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/galatians/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/galatians/3.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/galatians/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/galatians/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Just as Abraham BELIEVED GOD AND IT WAS COUNTED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/galatians/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/galatians/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />just like Abraham who believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/galatians/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/galatians/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/galatians/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The Scriptures say that God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/galatians/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/galatians/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Abraham serves as an example. He believed God, and that faith was regarded by God to be his approval of Abraham.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/galatians/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Consider the experience of Abraham; as the scripture says, "He believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/galatians/3.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />In the same way, Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/galatians/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />So also, ?Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/galatians/3.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/galatians/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/galatians/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/galatians/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/galatians/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Even so, Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/galatians/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />According as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/galatians/3.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />So also, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/galatians/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/galatians/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/galatians/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />As it is written: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/galatians/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />It is just as it was written: “Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/galatians/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/galatians/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/galatians/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/galatians/3.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />Just as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness,<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/galatians/3.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />even as Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.<CM><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/galatians/3.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />As Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/galatians/3.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />as Abraham believed in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/galatians/3.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/galatians/3.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his account as righteousness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/galatians/3.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/galatians/3.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />As Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/galatians/3-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jv8Ri4CeT34?start=468" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/galatians/3.htm">Faith and Belief</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe? <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/2531.htm" title="2531: Kathōs (Adv) -- According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.">So also,</a> <a href="/greek/11.htm" title="11: Abraam (N-NMS) -- Abraham, progenitor of the Hebrew race. Of Hebrew origin; Abraham, the Hebrew patriarch.">“Abraham</a> <a href="/greek/4100.htm" title="4100: episteusen (V-AIA-3S) -- From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.">believed</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tō (Art-DMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theō (N-DMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">God,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3049.htm" title="3049: elogisthē (V-AIP-3S) -- To reckon, count, charge with; reason, decide, conclude; think, suppose. ">it was credited</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autō (PPro-DM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">to him</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">as</a> <a href="/greek/1343.htm" title="1343: dikaiosynēn (N-AFS) -- From dikaios; equity; specially justification.">righteousness.”</a> </span> <span class="reftext">7</span>Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm">Genesis 15:6</a></span><br />Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/4-3.htm">Romans 4:3</a></span><br />For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/2-23.htm">James 2:23</a></span><br />And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-8.htm">Hebrews 11:8-19</a></span><br />By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. / By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. / For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/4-9.htm">Romans 4:9-12</a></span><br />Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. / In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before. / And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/4-18.htm">Romans 4:18-22</a></span><br />Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” / Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb. / Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/9-7.htm">Romans 9:7-8</a></span><br />Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.” / So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/8-39.htm">John 8:39</a></span><br />“Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/3-28.htm">Romans 3:28-31</a></span><br />For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. / Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, / since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/5-1.htm">Romans 5:1</a></span><br />Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/10-10.htm">Romans 10:10</a></span><br />For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-7.htm">2 Corinthians 5:7</a></span><br />For we walk by faith, not by sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-9.htm">Philippians 3:9</a></span><br />and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-1.htm">Hebrews 11:1</a></span><br />Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-6.htm">Hebrews 11:6</a></span><br />And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.</p><p class="hdg">as.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/galatians/3-9.htm">Galatians 3:9</a></b></br> So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm">Genesis 15:6</a></b></br> And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/4-3.htm">Romans 4:3-6,9,10,21,22</a></b></br> For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness… </p><p class="hdg">accounted.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/4-6.htm">Romans 4:6,11,22,24</a></b></br> Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/5-19.htm">2 Corinthians 5:19-21</a></b></br> To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_corinthians/11-22.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/galatians/2-6.htm">Account</a> <a href="/romans/8-36.htm">Accounted</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-13.htm">Believe</a> <a href="/galatians/3-5.htm">Believed</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-5.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/romans/9-8.htm">Counted</a> <a href="/romans/4-24.htm">Credited</a> <a href="/galatians/3-5.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-28.htm">Placed</a> <a href="/romans/9-8.htm">Reckoned</a> <a href="/galatians/2-21.htm">Righteousness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/galatians/3-7.htm">Abraham</a> <a href="/galatians/4-13.htm">Account</a> <a href="/james/2-23.htm">Accounted</a> <a href="/galatians/3-7.htm">Believe</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-13.htm">Believed</a> <a href="/philippians/2-3.htm">Consider</a> <a href="/philippians/2-6.htm">Counted</a> <a href="/philippians/4-17.htm">Credited</a> <a href="/galatians/3-7.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/ephesians/1-22.htm">Placed</a> <a href="/philippians/3-7.htm">Reckoned</a> <a href="/galatians/3-8.htm">Righteousness</a><div class="vheading2">Galatians 3</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-1.htm">He asks what moved them to leave the faith, and hold onto the law.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-6.htm">Those who believe are justified,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-9.htm">and blessed with Abraham.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-10.htm">And this he shows by many reasons.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-15.htm">The purpose of the Law</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/galatians/3-26.htm">You are sons of God</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/galatians/3.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/galatians/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/galatians/3.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>So also,</b><br>This phrase connects the argument Paul is making in <a href="/galatians/3.htm">Galatians 3</a> to the example of Abraham. Paul is addressing the Galatians to emphasize that faith, not the law, is the basis of righteousness. The "so also" indicates a continuation of thought, linking the faith of the Galatians to that of Abraham, a foundational figure in Jewish history.<p><b>“Abraham believed God,</b><br>Abraham's belief is a pivotal moment in biblical history, first recorded in <a href="/genesis/15-6.htm">Genesis 15:6</a>. This belief was not merely intellectual assent but a deep trust in God's promises. Abraham's faith is significant because it predates the Mosaic Law, underscoring that righteousness comes through faith, not legal adherence. Abraham's journey from Ur to Canaan, as described in Genesis, demonstrates his trust in God's guidance and promises, despite not having the law to guide him.<p><b>and it was credited to him</b><br>The term "credited" is an accounting term, implying that righteousness was accounted to Abraham's spiritual ledger. This concept of imputation is central to Christian theology, where faith results in righteousness being attributed to the believer. This idea is further explored in <a href="/romans/4.htm">Romans 4</a>, where Paul elaborates on how Abraham's faith was counted as righteousness before circumcision, reinforcing that faith, not works, is the basis of justification.<p><b>as righteousness.”</b><br>Righteousness here refers to being in right standing with God. In the cultural and historical context of the Old Testament, righteousness was often associated with adherence to the law. However, Abraham's example shows that righteousness is granted through faith. This anticipates the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection fulfill the law and provide the ultimate means of righteousness for believers. The prophetic nature of Abraham's faith points to the coming of Christ, who embodies the fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham and his descendants.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/a/abraham.htm">Abraham</a></b><br>A key patriarch in the Bible, known for his faith and obedience to God. His belief in God's promises is foundational to understanding faith and righteousness.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a></b><br>The author of the letter to the Galatians, addressing the churches in Galatia to correct false teachings and emphasize justification by faith.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/g/galatia.htm">Galatia</a></b><br>A region in modern-day Turkey where Paul established churches. The Galatians were being influenced by Judaizers who insisted on adherence to the Mosaic Law for salvation.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/genesis_15_-6.htm">Genesis 15:6</a></b><br>The Old Testament reference where Abraham's faith is first credited as righteousness, forming the basis for Paul's argument in Galatians.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/judaizers.htm">Judaizers</a></b><br>A group within the early church insisting that Gentile converts must follow Jewish law, including circumcision, to be saved.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_as_the_foundation_of_righteousness.htm">Faith as the Foundation of Righteousness</a></b><br>Abraham's example shows that righteousness is not earned by works but is credited through faith. This challenges believers to trust in God's promises rather than their own efforts.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_universality_of_the_gospel.htm">The Universality of the Gospel</a></b><br>By using Abraham, Paul demonstrates that the promise of righteousness through faith is available to all, Jew and Gentile alike, emphasizing the inclusivity of the Gospel.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_legalism.htm">The Danger of Legalism</a></b><br>The Galatians were being swayed by legalistic teachings. This serves as a warning against adding human traditions or laws to the simple Gospel of faith in Christ.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_and_obedience.htm">Faith and Obedience</a></b><br>While faith is credited as righteousness, true faith will naturally lead to obedience. Abraham's life exemplifies how faith and action work together.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_promises.htm">Trust in God's Promises</a></b><br>Believers are encouraged to trust in God's promises, even when fulfillment seems distant or impossible, just as Abraham did.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_galatians_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Galatians 3</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_abrahamic_covenant.htm">What is the Abrahamic Covenant?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_righteousness_mean.htm">What does righteousness mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_main_message_of_galatians.htm">What is the main message of Galatians?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_could_abram_count_stars_in_genesis_15_5.htm">How could Abram scientifically count the stars in Genesis 15:5 if the stars were only visible to the naked eye at that time? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/galatians/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6-14) These prolific results are due to faith, and not to the Law; just as it was faith which won for Abraham that imputed righteousness. Faith was the cause, blessing the consequence, which extends to all the spiritual descendants of Abraham. The Scripture distinctly foresaw this when it declared that the heathen too (<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> those who believe from among the heathen) should be blessed in Abraham. The effects of the Law are just the opposite of this. Where faith brings a blessing the Law brought a curse. The Law never made any man accepted as righteous. This is a privilege reserved for faith. The Law demands a literal fulfilment, which is impossible. Hence the Law entailed a curse, which Christ has removed by taking it upon Himself. Thus the blessing promised to Abraham, and the outpouring of the Spirit included in it, have been opened out to Gentiles as well as Jews, and indeed to all who give in their adhesion to Christ by faith.<p>(6) <span class= "bld">Even as.</span>--The argument is here very condensed. Ideas lie close together in the Apostle's mind which are some distance apart in ours. He asks whether, in bestowing the gifts of the Spirit upon the Christian Church, God made use of the medium of the Law or of faith. The answer he assumes to be faith; and his thoughts fly at once to that crucial instance of faith--the faith of Abraham.<p><span class= "bld">Abraham believed God . . .</span>--Quoted from the LXX. version of <a href="/genesis/15-6.htm" title="And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.">Genesis 15:6</a>. The same quotation is made, in the same words and with the same object, in <a href="/romans/4-3.htm" title="For what said the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.">Romans 4:3</a>, where see the Note. Comp. also the <span class= "ital">Excursus E to</span> that Epistle, on "Imputed Righteousness."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/galatians/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 6.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Even</span> <span class="cmt_word">as Abraham believed God</span>, <span class="cmt_word">and it was accounted to him for righteousness</span> (<span class="greek">καθὼς Ἀβραὰμ ἐπίστευσε τῷ Θεῷ καὶ</span> <span class="greek">ἐλογίσθη αὐῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην</span>); <span class="accented">was reckoned unto him for righteousness.</span> The answer to the question in the foregoing verse is so obvious that the apostle goes on as if that answer had been given, namely, that it was simply in consequence of the hearing of faith that God conferred on any the Holy Spirit and his powers. This, he now adds, was in exact conformity with what was recorded of Abraham; as soon as Abraham heard the promise made to him, "So shall thy seed be," he believed it, and by the hearing of faith was justified. The mutual correspondence of the two cases lay in this, that in imparting to those believers the Holy Spirit, God showed that they were in his favour, were justified people, simply because of their faith; even as Abraham was shown to be in his favour, having likewise by faith been justified. The apostle weaves into his sentence the very words of <a href="/genesis/15-6.htm">Genesis 15:6</a>, as they appear in the Septuagint, with scarcely any modification; the Septuagint reading thus: <span class="greek">Καὶ ἐπίστευσεν</span> <span class="greek">Αβραμ τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην</span>. But in doing so he both himself feels, and will have his readers feel, that they are words of <span class="accented">Scripture</span> from which, as such, reliable conclusions might be drawn, as is shown by the next verse. In the Hebrew, however, the passage runs as in our Authorized Version, "He believed in the Lord, and he accounted it to him for righteousness." The words are quoted with substantially the like agreement with the Septuagint and divergence from the Hebrew also in <a href="/romans/4-3.htm">Romans 4:3</a>, and by St. James in his Epistle (<a href="/james/2-23.htm">James 2:23</a>) (<span class="greek">ἐπίστευσε δὲ Ἀβραὰμ</span>, etc.). "It was reckoned;" in the Hebrew, "he reckoned it;" "it," that is, his believing: God regarded it as imparting to him perfect acceptableness, his sins no longer disqualifying him for being an object of the Divine favour. It is of the greatest importance to take note what the kind of faith was which God reckoned to him for righteousness. It was not simply a persuasion that what God says must be true. As Calvin remarks, Cain might have a hundred times exercised faith in what God had said to him, without thereby receiving righteousness from God. The reason why Abraham was justified by believing was this: a promise had been given him by God of his fatherly goodness towards him; and this word of God's he embraced as certainty. The faith, therefore, which the apostle is thinking of is the faith which has respect to some word of God which is of such a sort that reliance upon it will enable a man to repose in God's love to him for time and for eternity. The reference to Abraham's case which St. Paul makes in such very brief terms he expands in the fourth chapter of his Epistle to the Romans to a considerable length, ending with these words: "Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was reckoned to him [for righteousness]; but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up for our offences, and was raised for our justification." Christ's death and resurrection are God's word and guarantee to the whole human race, assuring us of his forgiveness and of his offer to us of eternal life. If we hear this word with faith, committing ourselves to his love, God on that ground at once justifies also us. It is evident that, in the apostle's view, the word "righteousness," as used in the recited passage of Genesis, does not mean "a righteous act," - that is, that Abraham's believing God's promise was viewed by Heaven with approval; but complete acceptableness investing Abraham himself. In consideration of that exercise of faith God accounted him a righteous man. The Greek phrase, <span class="greek">ἐλογίσθη εἰς δικαιοσύνην</span>, "was reckoned for righteousness," <span class="accented">i.e.</span> reckoned as being righteousness, is similar to <span class="greek">λογισθῆναι εἰς οὐδέν</span>, "reckoned as nought" (<a href="/acts/19-27.htm">Acts 19:27</a>); <span class="greek">εἰς περιτομὴν λογισθήσεται</span>, "reckoned for circumcision" (<a href="/romans/2-26.htm">Romans 2:26</a>); <span class="greek">λογίζεται εἰς σπέρμα</span>, "reckoned for a seed" (<a href="/romans/9-8.htm">Romans 9:8</a>). Are we to lifter from these two verses, 5 and 6, that in the apostle's view all who received spiritual gifts were thereby proved to be, or to have been, justified persons and in enjoyment of the Divine favour? We can hardly think this. The phenomena disclosed to us in the two Epistles addressed to the Corinthians. as to the moral and spiritual behaviour of some at least of their body, tend to show that individuals possessed of charisms were found in some instances to make a very vainglorious use of them, and needed to be reminded that the thaumaturgic gifts were of a fleeting character and of incomparably less value than qualities of moral goodness. Certainly Christ himself has told us that "many" will at the last be found to have been possessed of such miraculous gifts, whom nevertheless he "never knew." One of the very apostles was a Judas. Perhaps the solution is this: companies of men were dealt with in the diffusion of these gifts according as they were characterized, viewed each as a whole, though there might be individuals in each company imperfectly, very superficially, some perhaps not at all, animated by the sentiment generally prevailing in the body. If a community as a whole was pervaded extensively by a spirit of frank acceptance of the gospel doctrine and of pious devotion, its members brought by baptism into the "body which is Christ," the Holy Spirit made such a community his habitation (<a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16, 17</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/6-19.htm">1 Corinthians 6:19</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/6-16.htm">2 Corinthians 6:16</a>), and diffused his gifts among its members diversely and to all appearance Indiscriminately (<a href="/1_corinthians/12-13.htm">1 Corinthians 12:13</a>); at all events not in such wise discriminately as that degrees of personal holiness and acceptableness before God could at all be estimated as standing in proportion to the outward brilliancy of thaumaturgie gifts severally possessed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/galatians/3-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">So also,</span><br /><span class="grk">Καθὼς</span> <span class="translit">(Kathōs)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2531.htm">Strong's 2531: </a> </span><span class="str2">According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">“Abraham</span><br /><span class="grk">Ἀβραὰμ</span> <span class="translit">(Abraam)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_11.htm">Strong's 11: </a> </span><span class="str2">Abraham, progenitor of the Hebrew race. Of Hebrew origin; Abraham, the Hebrew patriarch.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">believed</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐπίστευσεν</span> <span class="translit">(episteusen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">God,</span><br /><span class="grk">Θεῷ</span> <span class="translit">(Theō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> </span><span class="str2">A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and</span><br /><span class="grk">καὶ</span> <span class="translit">(kai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> </span><span class="str2">And, even, also, namely. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">it was credited</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐλογίσθη</span> <span class="translit">(elogisthē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3049.htm">Strong's 3049: </a> </span><span class="str2">To reckon, count, charge with; reason, decide, conclude; think, suppose. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">to him</span><br /><span class="grk">αὐτῷ</span> <span class="translit">(autō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as</span><br /><span class="grk">εἰς</span> <span class="translit">(eis)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> </span><span class="str2">A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">righteousness.”</span><br /><span class="grk">δικαιοσύνην</span> <span class="translit">(dikaiosynēn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1343.htm">Strong's 1343: </a> </span><span class="str2">From dikaios; equity; specially justification.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/galatians/3-6.htm">Galatians 3:6 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/galatians/3-6.htm">NT Letters: Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God and it (Gal. 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