{"id":292,"date":"2007-12-31T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:27:28","slug":"romans-46-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Romans 4:6-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span id=\"en-NKJV-28029\" class=\"text Rom-4-6\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">6\u00a0<\/sup>just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"line\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-28030\" class=\"text Rom-4-7\"><sup class=\"versenum\">7\u00a0<\/sup><span class=\"oblique\">\u201cBlessed<\/span> are those <span class=\"oblique\">whose lawless deeds are forgiven, a<\/span><\/span><span class=\"text Rom-4-7\"><span class=\"oblique\">nd whose sins are covered;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">David is used in addition to Abraham because Jewish law required two witnesses <u>and<\/u> because Abraham was <u>before<\/u> the Law and David was <u>under<\/u> the Law. Faith was without works for both, but in the Old Testament, sins were covered (guilt removed) not removed.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Blessedness \u2014 not just happiness, by a pronouncement by God.<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Verse 7 is a quote from Psalm 32, after David was forgiven for his sin with Bathsheba. <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3940\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Psalm 32:1<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\u00a0just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7\u00a0\u201cBlessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; David is used in addition to Abraham because Jewish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6392,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}