James 2:23

Coverdale Bible (1535)

& the scripture was fulfilled which faith: Abraha beleued God and it was reputed vnto him for rightewesnes: and he was called ye frende of God.

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  • Gen 15:6 : 6 Abram beleued the LORDE, and yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes.
  • 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 Hast not thou or God expelled the inhabiters of this londe before thy people of Israel? and hast geue it vnto the sede of Abraham thy louer for euer?
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 And thou Israel my seruaunt: Iacob my electe sede of Abraha my beloued,
  • Rom 4:3-6 : 3 But what sayeth ye scripture? Abraha belened God, & yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes. 4 Vnto hi yt goeth aboute wt workes, is the rewarde not rekened of fauoure, but of dutye: 5 owbeit vnto him, yt goeth not aboute with workes, but beleueth on him yt iustifieth the vngodly, is his faith counted for righteousnes. 6 Euen as Dauid sayeth also, that blessednes is onely that mans, vnto who God counteth righteousnes without addinge to of workes, where he sayeth:
  • Gal 3:6 : 6 Euen as Abraha beleued God, and it was counted vnto him for righteousnes.
  • Rom 4:22-24 : 22 And therfore was it rekened vnto him for righteousnes. 23 But this is not wrytte onely for his sake, yt it was counted vnto him, 24 but also for oure sakes: vnto who it shalbe counted, yf we beleue on him, that raysed vp oure LORDE Iesus from the deed.
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 For the scripture sayeth vnto Pharao: For this cause haue I stered the vp, euen to shewe my power on the, that my name mighte be declared in all lodes.
  • Gal 3:8-9 : 8 The scripture sawe afore hade, that God iustifieth the Heythen thorow faith. Therfore shewed it glad tydinges afore vnto Abraham, and sayde: In the shal all the Heythen be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham. 10 For as many as go aboute with the workes of the lawe, are vnder ye curse: For it is wrytte: Cursed be euery man, which cotynueth not in all thinges that are wrytte in the boke of the lawe, to do them.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But ye scripture hath shut vp all vnder synne, that ye promes shulde come by the faith on Iesus Christ, geue vnto the that beleue.
  • Rom 4:10-11 : 10 How was it the rekened vnto him? In the circucision, or in the vncircumcision? Doutles not in the circucision, but in the vncircumcision. 11 As for the toke of circucision he receaued it for a seale off the righteousnes off faith, which he had yet in ye vncircusion, yt he shulde be a father of all the yt beleue, beinge in ye vncircucisio, yt it might be couted vnto the also for righteousnes:
  • Job 16:21 : 21 Though a body might pleate wt God, as one man doth with another,
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 And the LORDE spake vnto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his frende. And whan he turned agayne to the hoost, ye yonge ma Iosua ye sonne of Nun his minister, departed not out of ye Tabernacle.
  • Mark 15:27 : 27 And they crucified him wt two murtherers, one at ye right hande, and one at the left.
  • Luke 4:21 : 21 And he begane to saye vnto them: This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares.
  • John 15:13-15 : 13 No man hath greater loue, then to set his life for his frende. 14 Ye are my frendes, yf ye do that I commaunde you. 15 Hence forth call I you not seruauntes, for a seruaunt knoweth not what his lorde doeth. But I haue sayde that ye are frendes: For all that I haue herde of my father, haue I shewed vnto you.
  • Acts 1:16 : 16 Ye men and brethren, this scripture must nedes be fulfylled, which ye holy goost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas, which was a gyde of the that toke Iesus:
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Haue ye not red this scripture: The same stone which the buylders refused, is become the headstone in the corner?
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 For all scripture geue by inspiracion of God, is profitable to teach, to improue, to amende, and to instructe in righteousnes,
  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God hath not thrust out his people, whom he knewe before. Or wote ye not what the scripture sayeth of Elias, how he maketh intercession vnto God agaynst Israel, and sayeth:

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