# G3049 - logizomai **Strong's:** [G3049](https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g3049/) · BLB lookup **Pronunciation:** log-id'-zom-ahee **Part of speech:** middle / passive deponent verb **Root:** from *logos* (word, account, reckoning) **NT occurrences:** 41 ## Semantic range 1. **To reckon, count, calculate, compute**, the basic accounting / arithmetic sense 2. **To consider, think, regard**, the cognitive sense 3. **To credit / impute / put to one's account**, the theologically loaded soteriological sense 4. **To deliberate, reason, conclude** in some contexts ## Theological force, imputation The most theologically loaded use of *logizomai* is **the Pauline doctrine of imputation** (or "reckoning" / "crediting"). The pattern: God *credits* Christ's righteousness to the believer's account, *not counting* the believer's sin against them. ### [Romans 4](/codex/romans-4/), the imputation chapter [Romans 4](/codex/romans-4/) is the most concentrated *logizomai* text, 11 occurrences in one chapter. Paul cites [Genesis 15:6](/codex/genesis-15-6/) (LXX): *Abraam episteusen tō Theō, kai elogisthē autō eis dikaiosynēn*, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited (*elogisthē*) to him as righteousness." The argument structure: - **v. 3**, Abraham's faith was *credited* (*elogisthē*) as righteousness - **vv. 4-5**, to one who works, wages are not credited as a favor but as what is due; but to one who believes, faith is credited as righteousness - **vv. 6-8**, David's testimony: *makarios anēr hou ou mē logisētai Kyrios hamartian*, "blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count" ([Ps 32:1-2](/codex/psalms-32-1-2/)) - **vv. 9-12**, was Abraham credited before or after circumcision? Before, therefore the imputation is grounded in faith, not Law-works - **vv. 13-25**, the promise comes by faith; God who gives life and "calls into being that which does not exist" (v. 17); Abraham's faith *was credited* (*elogisthē*) to him as righteousness The Reformation extracts from [Romans 4](/codex/romans-4/) the doctrine of *imputed righteousness*, believers' justification consists in God *crediting* Christ's righteousness to them. ### [2 Corinthians 5:19](/codex/2-corinthians-5-19/), *not counting* > God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, *not counting* (*mē logizomenos*) their trespasses against them. The *logizomai* applies in both directions: - *Not* counting believers' sin - *Counting* Christ's righteousness to them This is the **double-imputation** of Reformation theology: my sin imputed to Christ; Christ's righteousness imputed to me. ### [Romans 4:6](/codex/romans-4-6/), [8](/codex/romans-4-8/), [22-24](/codex/romans-4-22-24/), credit / not credit The repeated pattern: - *eis dikaiosynēn*, "as righteousness", what gets credited - *kata charin* / *kata opheilēma*, "as a favor" / "as what is due", the manner ### The "not counting" extends to the believer's sanctification Beyond justification, *logizomai* describes the *renewed thinking* of the sanctified: - [Romans 6:11](/codex/romans-6-11/), *logizesthe heautous einai*, "consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God" - [Romans 8:18](/codex/romans-8-18/), "I *logizomai* that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory…" - [Philippians 4:8](/codex/philippians-4-8/), *tauta logizesthe*, "dwell on these things" ## Patristic / scholarly note The Reformation made *logizomai* central to its doctrine of justification: - Luther, *imputed* righteousness is the foundation of *sola fide* - Calvin (*Institutes* III.11.2-9), extensive treatment - The Westminster Confession ch. 11 ("Of Justification"), codifies the doctrine Roman Catholic / Council of Trent (1547, Session VI), denied imputation; defined justification as *infused* righteousness through grace. Modern Reformed: J. I. Packer; D. A. Carson; John Piper (*Counted Righteous in Christ*, 2002); Mark Seifrid (*Christ, Our Righteousness*, 2000). New Perspective: N. T. Wright (*What Saint Paul Really Said*, 1997), questions imputation while retaining covenant-faithfulness; J. D. G. Dunn. ## Notable verses - **[Genesis 15:6](/codex/genesis-15-6/) (LXX)**, Abraham's faith credited (the foundational anchor) - **[Romans 2:26](/codex/romans-2-26/)**, uncircumcision *logisthēsetai eis peritomēn* - **[Romans 4:3](/codex/romans-4-3/), [5](/codex/romans-4-5/), [6](/codex/romans-4-6/), [8](/codex/romans-4-8/), [9](/codex/romans-4-9/), [10](/codex/romans-4-10/), [11](/codex/romans-4-11/), [22](/codex/romans-4-22/), [23](/codex/romans-4-23/), [24](/codex/romans-4-24/)**, extensive - **[Romans 6:11](/codex/romans-6-11/)**, consider yourselves dead to sin - **[Romans 8:18](/codex/romans-8-18/), [36](/codex/romans-8-36/)**, *logizomai* the sufferings - **[Romans 9:8](/codex/romans-9-8/)**, children of the promise *logizetai eis sperma* - **[2 Corinthians 5:19](/codex/2-corinthians-5-19/)**, not counting trespasses - **[Galatians 3:6](/codex/galatians-3-6/)**, Abraham's faith credited (parallel) - **[James 2:23](/codex/james-2-23/)**, "Abraham believed God and it was credited (*elogisthē*) to him as righteousness" - **[Hebrews 11:19](/codex/hebrews-11-19/)**, Abraham *elogisato* that God could raise from the dead ## See also - [G1343 - dikaiosyne](/codex/g1343-dikaiosyne/), righteousness - [G1344 - dikaioo](/codex/g1344-dikaioo/), to justify - [G4102 - pistis](/codex/g4102-pistis/), faith - [G5485 - charis](/codex/g5485-charis/), grace - [Romans 5.8](/codex/romans-5-8/), gospel application ## Notes _Lexical workspace for logizomai._