2 If Abraham was made right by the things he did, then he had a reason to brag. But he could not brag before God.
3 The Scripture says, “Abraham believed God. And that faith made him right with God.”
4 When a person works, his pay is not given to him as a gift. He earns the pay he gets.
5 But a person cannot do any work that will make him right with God. So he must trust in God. Then God accepts his faith, and that makes him right with God. God is the One who can make even those who are evil right in his sight.
6 David said the same thing. He said that a person is truly blessed when God does not look at what he has done but accepts him as good:
7 “Happy are theywhose sins are forgiven,whose wrongs are pardoned.
8 Happy is the personwhom the Lord does not consider guilty.” Psalm 32:1-2