Romans 4

1 What then will we say to have discovered Abraham the (ancestor *N+KO) of us according to [the] flesh?

So then, what shall we say that Abraham had achieved, who is our father according to the flesh?

2 If for Abraham by works was justified, he has ground of boasting but not toward God.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he would have glory, but not with God.

3 What for the Scripture says? Believed then Abraham in God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

For what does Scripture say? “Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.”

4 To the [one] now working the reward not is reckoned according to grace but according to debt;

But for he who works, wages are not accounted according to grace, but according to debt.

5 To the [one] however not working, believing however on the [One] justifying the ungodly, is reckoned the faith of him for righteousness.

Yet truly, for he who does not work, but who believes in him who justifies the impious, his faith is reputed unto justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

6 just as also David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Similarly, David also declares the blessedness of a man, to whom God brings justice without works:

7 Blessed [are] they of whom are forgiven the lawless deeds and of whom are covered the sins;

“Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.

8 blessed [is] [the] man (of whom *N+kO) certainly not may reckon [the] Lord sin.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin.”

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.

Does this blessedness, then, remain only in the circumcised, or is it even in the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was reputed to Abraham unto justice.

10 How then was it credited? In circumcision being or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision;

But then how was it reputed? In circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

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,

For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,

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.

and he might be the father of circumcision, not only for those who are of circumcision, but even for those who follow the footsteps of that faith which is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

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.

For the Promise to Abraham, and to his posterity, that he would inherit the world, was not through the law, but through the justice of faith.

14 If for those of [the] Law [are] heirs, has been made void faith and has been nullified the promise;

For if those who are of the law are the heirs, then faith becomes empty and the Promise is abolished.

15 For law wrath brings; where (now *N+kO) no there is law, neither [is] transgression.

For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

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 —

Because of this, it is from faith according to grace that the Promise is ensured for all posterity, not only for those who are of the law, but also for those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all before God,

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;

in whom he believed, who revives the dead and who calls those things that do not exist into existence. For it is written: “I have established you as the father of many nations.”

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;

And he believed, with a hope beyond hope, so that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was said to him: “So shall your posterity be.”

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,

And he was not weakened in faith, nor did he consider his own body to be dead (though he was then almost one hundred years old), nor the womb of Sarah to be dead.

20 About however the promise of God not he did waver through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God

And then, in the Promise of God, he did not hesitate out of distrust, but instead he was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

21 and having been fully assured that what He has promised able He is also to do;

knowing most fully that whatever God has promised, he is also able to accomplish.

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

And for this reason, it was reputed to him unto justice.

23 Not it was written now on account of him alone that it was credited to him,

Now this has been written, that it was reputed to him unto justice, not only for his sake,

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,

but also for our sake. For the same shall be reputed to us, if we believe in him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead,

25 who was delivered over for the trespasses of us and was raised for the justification of us.

who was handed over because of our offenses, and who rose again for our justification.