📜WEB · Romans 4:24
What does Romans 4:24 mean?
"but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,"
— Romans 4:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Explanation
Romans 4:24 says that righteousness is credited to us in the same way it was credited to Abraham—not because we have earned it, but because we believe. The verse is part of a sentence beginning in verse 22, where Paul concludes his discussion of Abraham: "it was accounted to him for righteousness... not for his sake alone... but for our sake also." In other words, the Genesis account of Abraham's faith being counted as
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