Romans 4:7
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
KJV
μακάριοι ὧν ἀφέθησαν αἱ ἀνομίαι καὶ ὧν ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι·
Greek NT
Beati, quorum remissæ sunt iniquitates, et quorum tecta sunt peccata.
Vulgate
saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.
ASV
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μακάριος
makarios
adjective · 50×
ἀνομία
anomia
noun · 14×
ἀφίημι
aphiemi
verb · 143×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐπικαλύπτω
epikalupto
verb · 1×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Ps 32:1 · exact_quote"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."Psalm 32: blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love, and that there is no declaring its perfection. Who is fit to be found in it, except such as God has vouchsafed to render worthy? Let us pray, therefore, and implore of His mercy, that we may live blameless in love, free from all human partialities.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. Paul cites this Psalm in Romans 4 to prove that justification is by grace through faith, not works. David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes not iniquity. His own experience of concealing sin and then confessing it illustrates that there is no rest for the conscience until sin is freely acknowledged and forgiv…
Those whom God effectually calls He also freely justifies, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous — not for anything wrought in them or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them as their righteou…
Cross-references
- Exod 34:7 — Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s c
- Gen 28:4 — And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
- Isa 40:1 — Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- Jer 33:8 — And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
- Luke 7:47 — Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
- Matt 9:2 — And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
- Mic 7:18 — Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
- Num 23:21 — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
- Ps 32:1 — Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- Ps 51:8 — Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Ps 85:2 — Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
- Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Rom 7:17 — Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Rom 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.