Abram believes the LORD, and it is credited to him as righteousness. This may be the most theologically important verse in the entire Old Testament outside of Genesis 3:15. The gospel pattern is here: faith credited as righteousness — not works, not law, not ritual, but trust. Paul quotes this verse three times in Romans 4:3, 4:9, and 4:22, and once in Galatians 3:6, building his entire argument for justification by faith on this moment. James 2:23 also cites it, showing that Abram's faith was not empty credence but the kind that produces action. The Hebrew word for 'credited' (chashab) is an accounting term — God made an entry in the ledger. Righteousness was not earned; it was received and recorded. The application: the pattern of justification has not changed between Genesis 15:6 and today. You are made right with God the same way Abram was: by believing what God has said about what he will do. That is the whole of it.

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