Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
KJV
μακάριος ἀνὴρ οὗ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν.
Greek NT
Beatus vir, cui non imputavit Dominus peccatum.
Vulgate
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.
ASV
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λογίζομαι
logizomai
verb · 40×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μακάριος
makarios
adjective · 50×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: οὗ | WH/Treg/NIV: οὗ | RP: ᾧ
- οὗ — SBLGNT
- οὗ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ᾧ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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
- 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- 1Pet 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- 1Sam 2:2 — There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- 2Cor 5:19 — 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.
- Acts 15:1 — And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
- Ps 32:2 — Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.