Romans 4

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

What shall we say then, that Abraham our father hath found concerning the flesh?

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

For if Abraham were iustified by workes, he hath wherein to reioyce, 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 saith the Scripture? Abraham beleeued God, and it was counted to him for righteousnesse.

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

Nowe to him that worketh, the wages is not counted by fauour, but by dette:

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

But to him that worketh not, but beleeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodly, his faith is counted for righteousnesse.

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

Euen as Dauid declareth the blessednesse of the man, vnto whom God imputeth righteousnes without workes, saying,

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

Blessed are they, whose iniquities are forgiuen, and whose sinnes are couered.

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

Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sinne.

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.

Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.

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

Howe was it then imputed? when he was circumcised, or vncircumcised? not when he was cricumcised, but when he was vncircumcised.

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,

After, he receiued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the righteousnesse of ye faith which he had, when he was vncircumcised, that he should be the father of all them that beleeue, not being circumcised, that righteousnesse might be imputed to them also,

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 the father of circumcision, not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision, but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was vncircumcised.

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 that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

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

For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise is made of none effect.

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

For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

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 —

Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

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;

(As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) euen before God whom he beleeued, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those thinges which be not, as though they were.

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;

Which Abraham aboue hope, beleeued vnder hope, that he should be the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken to him, So shall thy seede 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 not weake in the faith, considered not his owne bodie, which was nowe dead, being almost an hundreth yeere olde, neither the deadnes of Saraes wombe.

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

Neither did he doubt of the promise of God through vnbeliefe, but was strengthened in the faith, and gaue glorie to God,

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

Being fully assured that he which had promised, was also able to doe it.

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

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

Nowe it is not written for him onely, that it was imputed to him for righteousnesse,

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 vs, to whom it shalbe imputed for righteousnesse, which beleeue in him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,

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

Who was deliuered to death for our sinnes, and is risen againe for our iustification.