Romans 4

1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

What then say we of Abraham, the chief of the fathers, that he found in the flesh?

2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For if Abraham by works was justified, he had cause for boasting; but not with Aloha.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

For what saith the scripture? That Abraham believed Aloha, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

But to him who worketh, his wages are not reckoned to him as of favour, but as that which is owing to him:

5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

but to him who worketh not, but believeth only in him who justifieth sinners, his faith is reckoned to him for righteousness.

6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

As also David hath spoken concerning the blessedness of the man to whom Aloha reckoneth righteousness without works, saying,

7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Blessed are they whose iniquity is forgiven, And whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

Blessed is the man to whom Aloha reckoneth not his sin.

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.

Is this blessedness, then, upon the circumcision (only), or upon the uncircumcision (also)? Now we have said, that his faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

When, then, was it reckoned to him? In circumcision or in uncircumcision? It was not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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.

For he received the sign of circumcision (as) a seal of the righteousness of his faith, which (was his) in uncircumcision, that he should be the father of all them who believe of the uncircumcision; that it might be accounted also to them for righteousness:

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.

and the father of the circumcision, not of them who are of the circumcision only, but of them who pursue the footsteps of the faith of uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

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.

FOR not through the law was the promise unto Abraham and to his seed that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith would be vain, and the promise be abolished.

15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

For the law is the worker of wrath. For where there is no law, there also is no transgression of the law.

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.

Therefore it is by faith, which is through grace, that we are justified, that the promise might be firm unto all his seed; not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

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.

(as it is written, I have ordained thee the father of many nations before Aloha, in whom thou hast believed, who maketh alive the dead, and calleth those who are not as though they were: )

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.”

and who, without hope, unto hope believed that he should be the father of many nations, as it is written, that " so shall be thy seed."

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.

Nor was he weak in his faith, while considering his body dead, (for he was the son of an hundred years, ) and the dead womb of Sara;

20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

and at the promise of Aloha he wavered not as deficient in faith, but was strong in faith, and gave glory to Aloha;

21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

and was sure that what he had promised to him Aloha could fulfil.

22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”

Wherefore it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

And not for his sake only was this written, that his faith was reckoned for righteousness,

24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

but for our sake, because it should be reckoned to us also who believe in Him who hath raised our Lord Jeshu Meshiha from among the dead;

25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

who was delivered for our sins, and rose that he might justify us.