Gen 15: 6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Rom 4:
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was [
b]accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted [
c]as grace but as debt.
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.”
16 Therefore
it is of faith that
it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be [
d]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all