Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Mbi tulenda tuba mu diambu di Abalahami nkuluꞌeto mu kimutu e?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Enati Abalahami wukitulu wusonga mu diambu di mavanga buna beki diambu di kalenda kiniemisina; vayi bika va meso ma Nzambi.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Bila mambu mbi meti tuba masonoko e? Abalahami wuwilukila Nzambi ayi diawu Nzambi kankitudila wusonga.
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
Woso mutu wunsalanga kisalu wumfutungu. Mfutu andi wisi dikaba ko vayi widi mfutu boso buididi kisalu kiandi.
5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Vayi kuidi mutu wunkambu salanga ayi wilukila mutu wowo wunkitulanga bankua masumu batu basonga, buna wela tangulu wusonga mu diambu di minu kiandi.
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Banga bu tubila Davidi ti khini kuidi mutu wowo Nzambi keta tangila mutu wusonga bika mu mavanga:
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
O khini kuidi batu bobo balemvokolo minkanu miawu ayi masumu mawu mafuku!
8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
O khini kuidi woso mutu Pfumu kankambu tangila masumu.
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.
A buevi khini beni yidi kaka mu diambu di bazengo nitu yi kibakala voti yidi ayi kuidi bawu bakambulu bazengo e? Bila tueti tubanga ti: Abalahami wukitulu wusonga mu minu.
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Buna buevi divangimina e? Mu thangu kaba wuzengo voti buna kazengolo ko e? Bika sia ti buna widi wuzengo vayi buna kazengolo ko.
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.
Wutambula dimbu kinzengolo banga dimbu ki busonga mu diambu di minu kiandi buna kazengolo ko, muingi kaba dise di batu bobo bawilukila kambu nzengolo; muingi mamvawu bakituka batu basonga.
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.
Ayi muingi kaba dise di bobo bazengo, bika sia ti bila badi bazengo, vayi mu diambu beta landakana kifuani ki minu kioki kiba dise dieto Abalahami buna kazengolo ko.
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.
Bila tsila yi tambula nza yimvimba banga kiuka yivanunu kuidi Abalahami ayi kuidi nkunꞌandi bika sia ti mu diambu di Mina vayi mu diambu di busonga bu minu.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Bila enati bobo badi ku tsi luyalu lu Mina bela tambula kiuka, buna minu kikitukidi kima kikambulu mfunu ayi buna tsila yimvunzulu.
15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Bila Mina mintotulanga nganzi yi Nzambi. Bila vana vakambulu Mina, vasi mbundulu yi masumu ko.
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.
Diawu tsila yivanunu mu diambu di minu muingi yiba dikaba; ayi tsila yiba yikuikama kuidi nkuna woso wu Abalahami. Bika sia ti kuidi bobo kaka bantumukinanga Mina vayi kuidi bobo badi minu kimosi ayi Abalahami, niandi dise di beto boso.
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.
Banga bu disonimina ti: minu ndibieka dise di makanda mawombo. Niandi dise dieto va meso ma Nzambi yoyi kawilukila; yoyo yimvananga luzingu kuidi bobo bafua ayi wuntelanga bima biobi bikambulu banga ti bidi.
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.”
Mu kambu bila kisila diana, vayi wutula diana ayi wuwilukila mu diambu kaba dise di makanda mawombobanga bu nkambila Nzambi ti: buawu bobo buela bela nkunꞌaku.
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.
Kasia ba wulebakana ko mu minu bu kasia bela nitu andi mayindu ko, bila yiba banga yifua; bila buna weka nduka-nduka khama yi mimvu ayi buna Sala kalendi buela buta ko.
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Vayi mu diambu di tsila yi Nzambi, kasia memata ko voti kasia kambu minu ko. Vayi wukindusu mu minu bu kavana nkembo kuidi Nzambi
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
ayi wuzaba kuandi bumboti ti mutu wowo wuvana tsila beki lulendo mu dukisa yawu.
22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
Diawu kankitudila wusonga.
23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Vayi kusia sonama mu diambu diandi kaka ko ti niandi kaka wukitulu wusonga
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
vayi ayi kuidi beto tuela kitulu basonga, beto tuwilukila mutu wowo wufulukisa Yesu, Pfumu eto, mu bafua,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
wuyekolo mu diambu di zinzimbala zieto vayi wufulukusu mu diambu di busonga bueto.
