Romans 4
1 What then will we say to have discovered Abraham the (ancestor *N+KO) of us according to [the] flesh?
Tulatyeni kuti Abbulahamu, ndeende sikale wesu munyama, wakajanaanzi?
2 If for Abraham by works was justified, he has ground of boasting but not toward God.
Nkaambo na Abbulahamu wakatambulika amilimu, nikuli uli aachakulidundiizya aacho, pele pe pe kunembo lyaLeza.
3 What for the Scripture says? Believed then Abraham in God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
Lino malembe atyeni? “Abbulahamu wakasyoma Leza, aboobo chakatolwa mbuli bululami kulinguwe.”
4 To the [one] now working the reward not is reckoned according to grace but according to debt;
Lino kuli wooyo uubeleka, muholo wakwe tuubalwi mbuli chipo pe, pele mbuli chikwelete.
5 To the [one] however not working, believing however on the [One] justifying the ungodly, is reckoned the faith of him for righteousness.
Pele kuli wooyo uubeleka pele kasyoma muli wooyo uululamika batakwe bunaLeza, lusyomo lwakwe lubalwa mbuli bululami.
6 just as also David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Deviti alubo waamba chilongezyo kumuntu ooyo Leza ngwabalila bululami butakwe milimu.
7 Blessed [are] they of whom are forgiven the lawless deeds and of whom are covered the sins;
Wakati, “Balilongezegelwe aabo balekelelwa nchito zyabo zitali mumulawu, alimwi azibi zyabo zivumbidwe.
8 blessed [is] [the] man (of whom *N+kO) certainly not may reckon [the] Lord sin.
Ulilongezegelwe ooyo muntu Mwami ngwatabalili zibi.”
9 [Is] the blessing then this on the circumcision or also on the uncircumcision? We are saying for (that: *k) was credited to Abraham the faith as righteousness.
Sa eechi chilongezyo chaambwa biyo kuli babo basibupalulwe, na kuti akuli babo batali basibupalulwe? Nkaambo twaamba kuti, “Lusyomo lwakabalilwa Abbulahamu mbuli bululami.”
10 How then was it credited? In circumcision being or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision;
Wakalubalilwa biyeni? Aawo katana palulwa na, kana kuti musule akupalulwa, pesi katana palulwa.
11 And [the] sign he received of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that [he had] [while] in the uncircumcision; for the to be him father of all those believing in uncircumcision, for to be credited also to them the righteousness,
Abbulahamu wakatambula chitondeezyo chabupalule. Echi chakali chisimyo chalusyomo ndwakalaabo katanapalulwa. Mpindu yachitondeezyo echi nkuti wakaba wisi wabaabo boonse basyoma, nikuba kabatanapalulwa.
12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only but also to those walking in the steps during (the *k) uncircumcision (of the *k) faith of the father of us Abraham.
Echi chaamba kuti bululami bubalilwe kulinguwe. Alubo eechi chaamba kuti Abbulahamu wakaba wisi wabaabo bapalwide kulibaabombasike pe pe kuzwa kubapalulwe luzutu, pele alubo kulibaabo batobela nzila zya taata wesu Abbulahamu. Elyo oolu ndulo lusyomo ndwakalaalo katana palulwa.
13 Not for through [the] Law [was] the promise to Abraham or to the descendants of him that heir he being (of the *k) world but through [the] righteousness of faith.
Nkaambo teensi kwiinda mumulawu pe chakapa kuti chisyomezyo chipegwe kuli Abbulahamu akulunyungu lwakwe, echi chisyomezyo kuti babe basimulyazina benyika. Pesi kwiinda mubululami bwalusyomo.
14 If for those of [the] Law [are] heirs, has been made void faith and has been nullified the promise;
Nkaambo na kuti aabo bapona mumulawu babambabo basimulyazina, lusyomo taluchaambi chintu, aboobo lusyom lwaba lwabuyo.
15 For law wrath brings; where (now *N+kO) no there is law, neither [is] transgression.
Nkaambo mulawu weeta bukali, pele aawo atakwe mulawu, takwe bulewusi.
16 Therefore it [is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for to be sure the promise to all the seed, not to that of the law only but also to that of [the] faith of Abraham, who is [the] father of all of us —
Akambo kaaka echi chilachitika kwiinda mulusyomo, kuti chibe chaluzyalo. Akaako, chisyomezyo chibe chakasimpe kubana boonse. Alimwi boonse bana banoobikilizya pe pe luzutu bazi mulawu, pele alubo aabo bazwa kulusyomo lyaAbbulahamu. Nkaambo ngu taata wesu toonse,
17 even as it has been written that A father of many nations I have made you, before whom he believed God, who is giving life to the dead and calling the [things] not [into] being as existing;
mbulimbukulembedwe, “Ndakuchita wisi wamanyika miingi. “Abbulahamu wakali mubuliwo bwawooyo ngwakasyoma, nkokuti, Leza, uupa buumi kubafu alimwi wiita zintu zitawo kuti zibewo.
18 who against hope in hope believed for to become him [the] father of many nations according to that spoken; So will be the offspring of you;
Nikuba wakasweenene azintu zilibuti, Abbulahamu wakasyoma Leza chakasimpe alyejunza. Akaako wakaba wisi wamanyika miingi, mbuli mbuzyakaambulwa, “Mazyalane aako mbayooba.”
19 And not having become weak in the faith (not *K) he considered his own body already expired, a hundred years old about being, and the lifelessness of the womb of Sarah,
Takawizukide mulusyomo. Abbulahamu wakamvwisisisya kuti mubili wakwe tuchikonzyi kuchita mwana (nkaambo wakali waamba kusisya myaaka ili mwaanda). Alimwi wakazumina kuti bula bwaSala tabuchikonzyi kuzyala mwana.
20 About however the promise of God not he did waver through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God
Pele akaambo kachisyomezyo chaLeza, Abbulahamu taakwe naakatazumbuuzya mukutasyoma. Pesi, wakasimisigwa mulusyomo alimwi wakapa bulemu kuliLeza.
21 and having been fully assured that what He has promised able He is also to do;
Wakakutisika loko kuti ezyo Leza nzyakasyomezya, ulakonzya kuzuzikizya.
22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.
Akaako zyakabalilwa lubo kulinguwe mbuli bululami.
23 Not it was written now on account of him alone that it was credited to him,
Lino tezyakalilembedwe luzutu pe kukukutisya lwakwe mwini, zyakabalilidwe kulinguwe.
24 but also on account of us to whom it is about to be credited, to those believing on the [One] having raised Jesus the Lord of us out from [the] dead,
Zyakalembelwa ndiswe alubo, nkuziyoobalilwa, iswe nitusyoma muliwooyo wakabusyaJesu Mwami wesukuzwa kubafu.
25 who was delivered over for the trespasses of us and was raised for the justification of us.
Oyu nguwe wakaabwa akaambo kazibi zyesu alimwi wakabusigilwa kukululamikwa kwesu.
