Romans 4
1 What then will we say to have discovered Abraham the (ancestor *N+KO) of us according to [the] flesh?
Ɛdeɛn na yɛbɛka afa yɛn tete agya Abraham ho? Osuahunu bɛn na ɔnyaeɛ?
2 If for Abraham by works was justified, he has ground of boasting but not toward God.
Sɛ wɔnam nneɛma a ɔyɛeɛ so buu no bem a, anka ɔwɔ biribi a ɔde bɛhoahoa ne ho. Nanso, ɔrentumi nhoahoa ne ho Onyankopɔn anim.
3 What for the Scripture says? Believed then Abraham in God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
Atwerɛsɛm no kyerɛ yɛn sɛ, “Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn diiɛ; na ɛno so na ɛnam maa Onyankopɔn gyee no sɛ ɔteneneeni 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 wɔbu nʼakatua no sɛ akyɛdeɛ, 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 nnebɔneyɛfoɔ to mu ɛfiri sɛ wɔwɔ gyidie 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 korɔ no ara sɛ, nhyira a ɛfiri Onyankopɔn nkyɛn ba onipa a Onyankopɔn agye no ato mu so. Saa nhyira yi mfiri nnipa nnwuma mu. Ɛno enti Dawid kaa sɛ:
7 Blessed [are] they of whom are forgiven the lawless deeds and of whom are covered the sins;
“Nhyira ne wɔn a wɔde wɔn amumuyɛ 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 nngu 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 anigyeɛ a Dawid ka ho asɛm no wɔ hɔ ma twetiatwafoɔ nko anaa? Dabi. Ɛwɔ hɔ ma wɔn nso a wɔntwaa twetia no; ɛfiri sɛ, yɛakenkan afiri Atwerɛsɛm no mu sɛ, “Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn diiɛ, na ɛsiane ne gyidie enti, Onyankopɔn gyee no sɛ ɔteneneeni.”
10 How then was it credited? In circumcision being or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision;
Ɛberɛ bɛn na saa asɛm yi siiɛ? Ɛsiiɛ ansa na wɔretwa Abraham twetia anaa Abraham twetiatwa no akyi na ɛsiiɛ? Ɛsiiɛ ansa, na ɛnyɛ twetiatwa no akyi na ɛsiiɛ.
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,
Akyire no na wɔtwaa no twetia, na ne twetiatwa no yɛ nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ a ɛkyerɛ sɛ, Onyankopɔn gyee no sɛ ɔteneneeni ansa na wɔretwa no twetia. Enti Abraham yɛ Honhom mu agya ma wɔn a wɔgye Onyankopɔn di nyinaa na wɔagye wɔn sɛ ateneneefoɔ a nso wɔntwaa wɔn twetia.
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 gyidie sɛdeɛ na Abraham wɔ gyidie 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 nʼasefoɔ bɔ sɛ wɔbɛyɛ ewiase adedifoɔ, mmom ɛnam tenenee a ɛfiri gyidie 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 wɔdi Mmara so yɛ adedifoɔ a, ɛnneɛ na gyidie nka hwee, na bɔhyɛ no nso ho nni mfasoɔ,
15 For law wrath brings; where (now *N+kO) no there is law, neither [is] transgression.
ɛfiri sɛ mmara de abufuhyeɛ 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 firi gyidie mu sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a ɛbɛfiri adom mu na ɛbɛtena hɔ ama Abraham asefoɔ nyinaa; ɛnyɛ wɔn a wɔwɔ mmara no ase nko ara, na mmom wɔn a wɔwɔ gyidie 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;
Sɛdeɛ wɔatwerɛ no: “Mayɛ wo aman bebree agya.” Onyankopɔn kaa saa, ɛfiri sɛ, Abraham gyee Onyankopɔn a ɔma awufoɔ nya nkwa, na ɔyɛ nneɛma foforɔ firi deɛ ɛnni hɔ mu diiɛ.
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;
Ɛberɛ a anidasoɔ asa no, Abraham nyaa anidasoɔ gye diiɛ, enti ɔbɛyɛɛ aman bebree so agya, sɛdeɛ na wɔaka akyerɛ no sɛ, “Saa na wʼasefoɔ 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 gyidie anhinhim ɛberɛ a na ɔreyɛ adi mfeɛ ɔha no mpo. Na ɔnim 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 gyidie anhinhim, na wannye Onyankopɔn bɔhyɛ no ho akyinnyeɛ. Ɔhyɛɛ ne gyidie mu den de animuonyam maa Onyankopɔn.
21 and having been fully assured that what He has promised able He is also to do;
Na ɔgye dii yie sɛ Onyankopɔn bɛtumi ayɛ deɛ wahyɛ ho bɔ no.
22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.
Yei enti wɔbuu no sɛ tenenee maa no.
23 Not it was written now on account of him alone that it was credited to him,
Wɔtwerɛɛ sɛ, “Wɔbuu no sɛ tenenee maa no” no, wɔantwerɛ 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 wɔtwerɛ maa yɛn nso a Onyankopɔn bɛbu yɛn sɛ ateneneefoɔ, yɛn a yɛgye deɛ ɔnyanee Yesu, yɛn Awurade, firii awufoɔ mu die no.
25 who was delivered over for the trespasses of us and was raised for the justification of us.
Yɛn bɔne enti, wɔyii no maa owuo, na wɔnyanee no maa yɛn bembuo.
