Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
To tih nahaeloe hae hmuen pongah aicae ampa Abraham mah taksa ah tih atho maw hnuk?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Abraham mah toksakhaih hoiah toenghaih hnu nahaeloe, anih amoek hanah hmuen maeto oh; toe Sithaw hmaa ah loe amoek thai mak ai.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Cabu mah timaw thuih? Abraham mah Sithaw to tang pongah, to tanghaih to toenghaih ah tapom pae, tiah oh.
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
Toksahkung mah a toksakhaih atho hnuk naah, tahmenhaih hoiah hnuk ih tangqum ah om ai, a hnuk han koi a tok sakhaih atho to ni a hnuk.
5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Toe toksakhaih tawn ai kami loe Anih tanghaih tawn kami hanah toenghaih Paekkung to tang nahaeloe, a tanghaih rang hoiah katoeng kami ah oh.
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
To baktih toengah toksakhaih om ai ah, Sithaw mah paek ih toenghaih hnu kami ih tahamhoihaih to David mah,
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
sakpazaehaihnawk tahmen pae moe, zaehaihnawk khuk pae ah kaom kaminawk loe tahamhoih o.
8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
Angraeng zae nethaih thung hoi loih kami loe tahamhoih, tiah thuih.
9 Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
Abraham tanghaih loe toenghaih ah tapom pae, tiah a thuih o boeh. To tiah nahaeloe hae tahamhoihhaih loe tangyat hin aat kami han khue maw oh, tangyat hin aat ai kaminawk han doeh oh toeng maw?
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Kawbangah oh naah maw to tiah tapom pae? Tangyat hin a aah pacoengah maw? To tih ai boeh loe aat ai na ah? Aah pacoengah na ai, aat ai na ah ni toenghaih to hnuk boeh.
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
Anih loe tangyat hin aat o ai, toe to toenghaih to nihcae mah hnuk o toeng, tangcaanawk boih ih ampa ah a oh hanah, Abraham loe tangyat hin aat ai naah ni, tanghaih hoiah kaom toenghaih tacik tangyat hin aah angmathaih to hnuk boeh.
12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Abraham loe tangyat hin aat kaminawk ih ampa khue na ai ni, tangyat hin aat ai naah Abraham tanghaih khokkong pazui kaminawk boih ih ampa ah doeh oh.
13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Abraham loe long qawktoepkung ah om tih, tiah lokkamhaih to oh: to lokkamhaih loe Abraham mah kaalok pazui pongah na ai ni, tanghaih rang hoiah kaom toenghaih hoiah ni oh.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Kaalok hoiah hing kaminawk mah qawk to toep o nahaeloe, tanghaih loe avanghaih tidoeh om mak ai ueloe, lokkamhaih doeh azom pui ah ni om tih boeh:
15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Kaalok mah palungphuihaih to ohsak: kaalok om ai ahmuen ah loe zaehaih doeh om ai.
16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Abraham ih caanawk boih khaeah tahmenhaih rang hoiah kaom lokkamhaih to caaksak hanah, tanghaih loe lokpui koekah oh; lokkamhaih loe kaalok thungah kaom kaminawk han khue na ai ni, kaminawk boih ih ampa ah kaom, Abraham tanghaih tawn kaminawk boih khaeah doeh om tih,
17 As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Abraham loe kadueh kaminawk hinghaih paekkung, kaom ai hmuennawk omsakkung hoi a tang ih Sithaw hmaa ah, (Nang loe acaeng kaminawk boih ih ampa ah kang sak boeh, ) tiah tarik ih lok to oh.
18 Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
Na caanawk loe to tiah om o nasoe, tiah anih khaeah thuih ih lok baktih toengah, Abraham mah kai loe acaengnawk ih ampa ah ka om tih, tiah oephaih to tawn ai, toe tanghaih rang hoiah oephaih a tawnh pongah ni, anih loe acaengnawk boih ih ampa ah oh.
19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
Abraham loe (saning cumvaito thuemtham oh boeh, ) Sarah doeh caa kak, toe tanghaih thazok ai, kadueh baktiah kaom a takpum doeh poek khing ai.
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Anih loe Sithaw lokkamhaih nuiah palunghaenghaih tawn ai, tanghaih bangah thacak moe, Sithaw to pakoeh;
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
lokkamhaih sah Sithaw loe lokkam ih baktiah sak thaih, tiah kacaak tanghaih to a tawnh.
22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
To pongah, anih to kami katoeng ah tapom.
23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Anih to katoeng kami ah tapom, tiah tarik ih lok loe anih han khue tarik ai;
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
aicae han doeh tarik ah oh toeng, aicae Angraeng Jesu duekhaih thung hoi pathawkkung Anih to a tang o nahaeloe, to tiah tanghaih to aicae toenghaih ah tapom pae toeng tih;
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Jesu loe aicae zaehaih pongah duek hanah angpaek moe, aicae toenghaih hnuk hanah duekhaih thung hoi angthawk let boeh.
