Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 3:6

"Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness." — Galatians 3:6 (ASV)

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

He was not saved by his works, but by his faith. His faith was the means of the imputation to him of the righteousness of the Saviour who was yet to come.

While the Jewish believers, like children, were under the law, they did not have such direct access to the Father as we have. They could not enter into such close fellowship with God as we can now.

We who are the sons of God, really born into his family, feel within us a something that makes us call God, "Father," not only in prayer, saying, Our Father, which art in heaven; but, inwardly, when we are not in the attitude of prayer, our hearts keep on crying, "Father, Father." The Jew may say, "Abba," and the word is very sweet; but we cry, "Father," and it means the same thing.

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

That is the old way, the way of faith. It is not here recorded that Abraham did anything, though he did much; but the one thing that was accounted to him for righteousness was this, that he believed God.

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

That is the Scriptural doctrine: faith is counted or imputed for righteousness.