Romans 4:8 Meaning and Explanation

Paul completes the quotation from Psalm 32. The same accounting language returns: the Lord will not impute, will not reckon sin to the person's account. Where guilt might have been written down against them, God leaves the page clear.

This is the flip side of righteousness being credited. Not only does God count faith as righteousness; He also declines to count sin where mercy has intervened. The blessedness David sings of is the security of knowing one's record before God has been cleared. For the believer, this finds its fullest ground in Christ, who bore what was ours so that it would never be charged to us. Here the conscience finds rest.