Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

The answer to is here taken for granted, It was by the hearing of faith: following this up, he says, "Even as Abraham believed," etc. (; .) God supplies unto you the Spirit as the result of faith, not works, just as Abraham obtained justification by faith, not by works (; ; ; ; ; ). Where justification is, there the Spirit is, so that if the former comes by faith, the latter must also.

It - his believing.

Accounted - `reckoned.'

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