Romans 4


Romans 4 is the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid 50s AD, with the help of an amanuensis, Tertius, who adds his own greeting in. The focus of this chapter is on Abraham, whose faith "was accounted to him for righteousness". The Geneva Bible's chapter summary states that "ten times in the chapter beateth upon this word, Imputation.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 25 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:

Verse 3

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

Heinrich Meyer explains that the citation from is quoted according to the Septuagint, which renders the active וְיַּחְשְׁבֶהָ by the passive και ελογισθη. Paul quotes the same verse in the same way in. Meyer also disputes the charge from the Protestant theologian that Paul "made an unwarrantable use of the passage for his purpose", because here Paul definitely understood δικαιοσύνη 'in the dogmatic sense', justifiable in doing so, since 'the imputation of faith as צְדָקָה was essentially the same judicial act which takes place at the justification of Christians'.