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Galatians 3:6 Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness

Righteousness is more than obedience to God’s laws. Abraham’s greatness was not that he kept the gospel law better than anyone else but that he exercised more faith. He had great desires for righteousness and actually believed that God would bless him according to his desires: ‘I sought for the blessings of the fathers…desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to posses a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers’ (Abr. 1:2).