Romans 4
1 What then will we say to have discovered Abraham the (ancestor *N+KO) of us according to [the] flesh?
Asɛm bɛn na yɛbɛka afa yɛn honam fam tete agya Abraham ho? Osuahu bɛn na onyae?
2 If for Abraham by works was justified, he has ground of boasting but not toward God.
Sɛ wɔnam nneɛma a ɔyɛe so buu no bem a, anka ɔwɔ biribi a ɔde bɛhoahoa ne ho. Nanso ɔrentumi nhoahoa ne ho wɔ Onyankopɔn anim.
3 What for the Scripture says? Believed then Abraham in God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
Kyerɛwsɛm no kyerɛ yɛn se, “Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn dii; na ɛno so na ɛnam maa Onyankopɔn gyee no sɛ ɔtreneeni no.”
4 To the [one] now working the reward not is reckoned according to grace but according to debt;
Onipa a ɔyɛ adwuma no fata nʼakatua; ɛnsɛ sɛ wobu nʼakatua no sɛ akyɛde, na mmom, ɛyɛ biribi a wayɛ ho adwuma anya.
5 To the [one] however not working, believing however on the [One] justifying the ungodly, is reckoned the faith of him for righteousness.
Ɛnyɛ nnwuma bi a onipa yɛ na ɛbɛma Onyankopɔn abu no bem. Onyankopɔn gye nnebɔneyɛfo to mu, efisɛ wɔwɔ gyidi wɔ ne mu.
6 just as also David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
Dawid ka asɛm koro no ara se nhyira a efi Onyankopɔn nkyɛn ba onipa a Onyankopɔn agye no ato mu so. Saa nhyira yi mfi nnipa nnwuma mu. Ɛno nti Dawid kae se:
7 Blessed [are] they of whom are forgiven the lawless deeds and of whom are covered the sins;
“Nhyira ne wɔn a wɔde wɔn amumɔyɛ akyɛ wɔn, na wɔakata wɔn bɔne so.
8 blessed [is] [the] man (of whom *N+kO) certainly not may reckon [the] Lord sin.
Nhyira nka onipa a Awurade mmu ne bɔne ngu ne so da.”
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.
Saa anigye a Dawid ka ho asɛm no wɔ hɔ ma twetiatwafo nko ana? Dabi. Ɛwɔ hɔ ma wɔn nso a wontwaa twetia no; efisɛ yɛakenkan afi Kyerɛwsɛm no mu se, “Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn dii, na esiane ne gyidi nti, Onyankopɔn gyee no sɛ ɔtreneeni.”
10 How then was it credited? In circumcision being or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision;
Bere bɛn na saa asɛm yi sii? Esii ansa na wɔretwa Abraham twetia anaa Abraham twetiatwa no akyi na esii? Esii ansa, na ɛnyɛ twetiatwa no akyi na esii.
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,
Akyiri yi na wotwaa no twetia na ne twetiatwa no yɛ nsɛnkyerɛnne a ɛkyerɛ sɛ, na Onyankopɔn agye no sɛ ɔtreneeni ansa na wɔretwa no twetia. Enti Abraham yɛ Honhom mu agya ma wɔn a wogye Onyankopɔn di nyinaa na wagye wɔn sɛ atreneefo a wontwaa wɔn twetia nso.
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.
Saa ara nso na Abraham yɛ agya ma obiara a wɔatwa no twetia na ɔwɔ gyidi sɛnea na Abraham wɔ gyidi ansa na wɔretwa no twetia no.
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.
Ɛnyɛ mmara no so na wɔnam hyɛɛ Abraham ne nʼasefo bɔ sɛ wɔbɛyɛ wiase adedifo, mmom ɛnam trenee a efi gyidi mu so.
14 If for those of [the] Law [are] heirs, has been made void faith and has been nullified the promise;
Sɛ wɔn a wodi Mmara so yɛ adedifo a, ɛno de na gyidi nka hwee, na bɔhyɛ no nso so nni mfaso,
15 For law wrath brings; where (now *N+kO) no there is law, neither [is] transgression.
efisɛ mmara de abufuwhyew ba. Na sɛ mmara nni hɔ a, mmarato nni hɔ.
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 —
Enti bɔhyɛ no fi gyidi mu sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a ebefi adom mu na ɛbɛtena hɔ ama Abraham asefo nyinaa; ɛnyɛ wɔn a wɔwɔ mmara no ase nko ara, na mmom wɔn a wɔwɔ gyidi sɛ Abraham nso. Ɔyɛ yɛn nyinaa agya.
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;
Sɛnea wɔakyerɛw no, “Mayɛ wo aman bebree agya.” Onyankopɔn kaa saa, efi sɛ, Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn a ɔma awufo nya nkwa, na ɔyɛ nneɛma foforo fi nea enni hɔ mu dii.
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;
Bere a anidaso asa no, Abraham nyaa anidaso gye dii, enti ɔbɛyɛɛ aman bebree so agya, sɛnea na wɔaka akyerɛ no se, “Saa na wʼasefo bɛyɛ” no.
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,
Abraham gyidi anhinhim bere a na ɔreyɛ adi mfe ɔha no mpo. Na onim nso sɛ ɔregye nna awu, na ne yere Sara nso rentumi nwo mma.
20 About however the promise of God not he did waver through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God
Nanso ne gyidi anhinhim, na wannye Onyankopɔn bɔhyɛ no ho akyinnye. Ɔhyɛɛ ne gyidi mu den de anuonyam maa Onyankopɔn.
21 and having been fully assured that what He has promised able He is also to do;
Na ogye dii yiye sɛ Onyankopɔn betumi ayɛ nea wahyɛ ho bɔ no.
22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.
Eyi nti wobuu no sɛ trenee maa no.
23 Not it was written now on account of him alone that it was credited to him,
Wɔkyerɛw se, “Wobuu no sɛ trenee maa no” no, wɔankyerɛw amma ɔno nko ara.
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,
Na mmom wɔkyerɛw maa yɛn nso a Onyankopɔn bebu yɛn sɛ atreneefo, yɛn a yegye nea onyan Yesu, yɛn Awurade fii awufo mu di no.
25 who was delivered over for the trespasses of us and was raised for the justification of us.
Yɛn bɔne nti, woyii no maa owu, na wonyan no maa yɛn bembu.
