Romans 4

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

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has discovered according to the flesh?

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

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

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

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

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

Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as something owed to him.

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

However, to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

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

just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

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

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

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

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will never count 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.

Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, “Faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.”

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

How then was it counted? When he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when 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,

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe when they are uncircumcised, so that righteousness might be counted to them as well,

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 so that he might be the father of those who are not only circumcised in the flesh, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had when he was 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 the promise to Abraham, or to his offspring, that he would be the heir of the world was not through the law, 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 those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been invalidated,

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

because the law brings 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 —

For this reason the promise comes by faith, so that it may be according to grace and be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, not only to the one who is of the law, but also to the one who is of 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;

(just as it is written, “I have made yoʋ the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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;

Against all hope Abraham believed in hope that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: “So shall yoʋr 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,

Because he was not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, now as good as dead (since he was somewhere around a hundred years old), or 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

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God but 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;

and being fully assured that God was able to do what he had promised.

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

Therefore, “it was counted to him as righteousness.”

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

Now the statement “it was counted to him” was not written only for Abraham's 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 for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised 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 for our trespasses and raised for our justification.