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Source language
Original Greek   
τί γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ λέγει; Ἐπίστευσεν δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τῷ θεῷ καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
ti gar e graphe legei; Episteusen de Abraam to theo kai elogisthe auto eis dikaiosunen.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
quid enim scriptura dicit credidit Abraham Deo et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For what said the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
New King James Version   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
21st Century King James Version   
For what saith the Scripture? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
For what do the Scriptures say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Darby Bible Translation   
for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
God's Word   
What does Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and that faith was regarded by God to be his approval of Abraham."
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
International Standard Version   
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
NET Bible   
For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
New American Standard Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
New International Version   
What does Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
New Living Translation   
For the Scriptures tell us, "Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith."
Webster's Bible Translation   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Weymouth New Testament   
For what says the Scripture? "And Abraham believed God, and this was placed to his credit as righteousness."
The World English Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
EasyEnglish Bible   
Remember what the Bible tells us. It says: ‘Abraham believed God. As a result, God accepted Abraham as right with him.’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'
New Life Version   
The Holy Writings say, “Abraham put his trust in God and that made him right with God.”
Revised Geneva Translation   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
The Voice Bible   
because as the Scriptures say, “Abraham believed God and trusted in His promises, so God counted it to his favor as righteousness.”
Living Bible   
For the Scriptures tell us Abraham believed God, and that is why God canceled his sins and declared him “not guilty.”
New Catholic Bible   
For what does Scripture say? “Abraham placed his faith in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Legacy Standard Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Christian Standard Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For what does the Scripture say? Abraham believed in (trusted in) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living and right standing with God).
New Century Version   
because the Scripture says, “Abraham believed God, and God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God.”
The Message   
So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things? If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we’re given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, “Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
For what does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed · God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
New Matthew Bible   
For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Good News Translation®   
The scripture says, “Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous.”
Wycliffe Bible   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed to God, and it was areckoned [reckoned] to him to rightwiseness.
New Testament for Everyone   
So what does the Bible say? “Abraham believed God, and it was calculated in his favor, putting him in the right.”
Contemporary English Version   
The Scriptures say, “God accepted Abraham because Abraham had faith in him.”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Now how does all this affect the position of our ancestor Abraham? Well, if justification were by achievement he could quite fairly be proud of what he achieved—but not, I am sure, proud before God. For what does scripture say about him? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness’.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For what does the scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.’
Common English Bible © 2011   
What does the scripture say? Abraham had faith in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed in (trusted, relied on) God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness (right living, right standing with God).”
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
New American Standard Bible   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
The Expanded Bible   
because the Scripture says, “Abraham believed God, and ·God accepted Abraham’s faith, and that faith made him right with God [L it was credited/counted to him for righteousness; Gen. 15:6].”
Tree of Life Version   
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Revised Standard Version   
For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”
New International Reader's Version   
What do we find in Scripture? It says, “Abraham believed God. God accepted Abraham’s faith, and so his faith made him right with God.” (Genesis 15:6)
BRG Bible   
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Complete Jewish Bible   
For what does the Tanakh say? “Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.”
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
What do the holy writings say? It says, `Abraham believed God. And God said that he was a good man.'
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For what does the scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.’
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For what does the Torah say? Avraham Avinu had emunah (faith) in Hashem V’YACHSHEVEH-HA LO TZEDAKAH ("and it was accounted, credited, reckoned imputed to him for righteousness" Gen 15:6.)
Names of God Bible   
What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and that faith was regarded as the basis of Abraham’s approval by God.”
Modern English Version   
What does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Easy-to-Read Version   
That’s why the Scriptures say, “Abraham believed God, and because of this he was accepted as one who is right with God.”
International Children’s Bible   
The Scripture says, “Abraham believed God. And that faith made him right with God.”
Lexham English Bible   
For what does the scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.”
New International Version - UK   
What does Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’
Disciples Literal New Testament   
For what does the Scripture say?— “And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness” [Gen 15:6].