Romans 4

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

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found 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 has something to boast about, but not toward 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 accounted to him for righteousness.”

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

Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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 doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

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

Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man 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 they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

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

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means 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.

Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for 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 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,

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

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.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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 offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t 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 is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

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

For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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 cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which 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;

As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls 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;

Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your 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,

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and 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

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through 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 what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”

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

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him 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 sake also, to whom it will be accounted, 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 was raised for our justification.