Romans 4

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

What advantage then shall we say that Abraham our father had as to the flesh?

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

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before 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 had faith in God, and it was accounted unto him as righteousness.”

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

Now to him that performeth works, the reward is not accounted a matter of grace, but of debt;

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 who without performing works hath faith in him who accepteth as righteous one that hath been ungodly, his faith is accounted as righteousness;

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

as David also speaketh of the blessedness of the man whom God accepteth as righteous 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 are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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

Blessed is the man whom the Lord shall not charge with 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.

Doth this blessedness belong to the circumcised alone, or to the uncircumcised also? For we are saying that Abraham's faith was accounted as righteousness.

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

How then was it so accounted? After his circumcision, or while he was uncircumcised? Not after he was circumcised, but while he was uncircumcised.

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,

And he received the outward sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all the uncircumcised who have faith, so that righteousness might be put to their account 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 that he might be the father of the circumcised, who are not circumcised merely, but who tread in the steps of that faith which our father Abraham had while yet uncircumcised.

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 not through the Law was the promise made to Abraham or his offspring that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness 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 that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.

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

For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law 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 the inheritance was made to depend on faith, that it might be a matter of grace; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is under the Law, but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us 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 have made thee a father of many nations”) in the sight of that God whom he believed, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are 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;

For he had confident hope in that which was past hope, that he should become a father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, “Thus shall thy offspring 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 not being weak in faith, he regarded not his own body which had become dead, he being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb;

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

nor did he waver in respect to the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

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

being fully convinced, that what he hath promised, he is able also to perform.

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

And therefore it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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

And that it was so accounted was not written for his sake alone,

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 for our sakes also, to whom it will be so accounted through our faith in him who raised up Jesus 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 delivered up on account of our trespasses, and raised from the dead that we might be accepted as righteous.