Romans 4
1 Abraham is the [revered] ancestor of us [Jews]. So think about what we can conclude [from what happened to Abraham about how God can erase the record of our sins]. [RHQ]
Ninia fi aowa A: ibalaha: me ea hou amola ea hawa: hamosu, amo ninia ba: mu da defea.
2 If it was because of Abraham’s doing [good] things that the record of his sins was erased {that [God] erased the record of his sins}, Abraham could then have been able to boast [about that to people], but he would not have [had any basis to] boast to God [about it].
E da hi hou moloidafa hamoiba: le, Gode da e moloidafa hamoi ganiaba, e da gasa fi hou hamomu da defea gala: loba. Be dunu da gasa fi hamomu, amo Gode da higa: i hodosa.
3 [Remember that] in the Scriptures it is written {someone wrote} [PRS] that Abraham believed what God [promised] [RHQ], and as a result the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}.
Gode Sia: da agoane dedei diala, “A: ibalaha: me da Gode Ea hou dafawaneyale dawa: i. Amaiba: le, Gode da A: ibalaha: me afadenene moloidafa hamoi ba: i.”
4 If we receive wages for work that we do, those wages are not considered to be a gift. Instead, they [are considered] to be what we have earned. [Similarly, if God erases the record of our sins because we did things to earn God’s favor], we would not consider that [God’s erasing the record of our sin] was [a gift. Instead, we would consider it as what we had earned].
Hawa: hamosu dunu da hawa: hamobeba: le, bidi laha. Be ea bidi lai da hahawane dogolegele iasu hame. E da hawa: hamobeba: le fawane lasa.
5 But suppose that we do not do things [to gain God’s acceptance]. Suppose that we instead trust [in God], who erases the record of sins of wicked people. Then the erasing of the record of our sins because of our trusting [in Christ] is considered to be a gift to us, [not something that we earned].
Gode da wadela: i hamosu dunu lale, afadenene, dunu moloidafa hamomusa: dawa: Osobo bagade dunu da hi hawa: hamobe amo mae dawa: le, amo dafawaneyale dawa: sea, Gode da amo dunu ea hou afadenene, bu moloidafa hamoi ba: sa.
6 Similarly, it is as David wrote [in the Psalms] about people being happy whose record of sins God has erased even though they have not done things [to earn it. David wrote]:
Amo hou Da: ibidi da amane olelei, nowa dunu da mae hawa: hamone, udigili Gode Ea hanaiba: le afadenei moloidafa ba: sa, amo dunu da hahawane bagade.
7 [God] is pleased with people whose sins have been {whose sins [he] has} forgiven, and whose sins he [has decided] to forget [DOU].
“Dunu da ea wadela: i hou da gogolema: ne olofoi dagoi ba: sa, amo dunu da hahawane bagade.
8 [God] causes to be happy the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of.
Gode da amo dunu ea wadela: i hou hobea hamedafa bu dawa: mu. Amaiba: le, e da hahawane bagade!”
9 As for our being happy [because God has erased the record of our sins], (it is not something that [only] we Jews [can experience]./is it [MTY] something that [only] we Jews [can experience]?) [RHQ] [No, it is] also something that non-Jews [can experience] [MTY]. [What is written in the Scriptures], that it was because Abraham trusted [in God] that the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}, [also shows that this is true].
Amo hahawane hou, gadofo damui dunu fawane da hame dawa: , be gadofo hame damui dunu amola amo hou dawa: lala. Ninia musa: Gode Sia: dedei, amane olelei, “A: ibalaha: me da Gode Ea hou dafawaneyale dawa: i. Amaiba: le, Gode da A: ibalaha: me afadenene, moloidafa hamoi ba: i.”
10 ([Think about] when [God erased the record of Abraham’s sins]./When did [God erase the record of Abraham’s sins]?) [RHQ] (Consider whether [it happened] after someone circumcised [Abraham to mark him as one who belonged to God], or before someone circumcised him./[Did it happen] after [Abraham was] circumcised [to be marked as one who belonged to God], or before he was circumcised?) [RHQ] It happened before he was circumcised, not after he was circumcised.
Amo hou da habogala hamobela: ? Amo hou da A: ibalaha: me ea gadofo hame damui esoga degabo ba: i.
11 [Many years later, God commanded that] Abraham [be] circumcised. Abraham’s accepting that ritual simply showed [that he knew that God had accepted him]. [He knew that God] had [erased the record of his sins] because he trusted [in God] while he was still, [in effect, a non-Jew because] he had not been circumcised. [So we can understand that] Abraham became (a spiritual ancestor/like an ancestor) to [all] of us whose record of sins has been erased {whose sins [God] has erased the record of} because we believe [in God’s promise, even though some of us] are not circumcised.
Gode da A: ibalaha: me moloidafa ba: i. Fa: no e da gadofo damusu hou hamoi. Ea gadofo damui da dawa: digima: ne olelesu fawane. Amo dawa: digima: ne olelesu da e da Gode Ea hou dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le, Gode da A: ibalaha: me moloidafa hamoi ba: i. Gadofo damui da fa: no ba: i. Amaiba: le dunu huluane Gode Ea hou dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le gadofo damui amola gadofo hame damui, amo Gode da moloidafa hamoi ba: sa. Amola amo huluane da A: ibalaha: me ea mano agoane.
12 Likewise, Abraham is the [spiritual] ancestor of all us Jews who are not merely circumcised but who, more importantly, [believe in God’s promise] as our ancestor Abraham did, even before he was circumcised.
Gadofo damui dunu amola ilia A: ibalaha: me ea dafawaneyale dawa: su hou e da ea gadofo hame damui amo esoga hamosu, amo defele ilia hamobeba: le, ilia amola da A: ibalaha: me ea mano agoane.
13 God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would receive [the blessings that he promised to give to the people in] the world. But when he promised that, it was not because Abraham [obeyed] the laws [that God later gave to Moses]. Instead, it was because Abraham believed [that God would do what he promised that he would do]. As a result, God erased the record of his sins.
Gode da A: ibalaha: mema, e amola egaga fi da hobea osobo bagade huluane lalegagumu sia: i. A: ibalaha: me da sema huluane mae giadofale hamoiba: le, Gode da amo hame sia: i. Be A: ibalaha: me da Gode dafawaneyale dawa: le, moloidafa hamoiba: le, Gode da ema amane sia: i.
14 If [we think that] it is those who [obey God’s] laws who will receive [what he has promised], it is useless [for us to trust in him. And what he] promised is worthless. [Remember that] it is [stated] in God’s law [PRS] [that] he will punish [people who do not perfectly obey them], and remember that wherever [MTY] laws exist, [people] disobey them [LIT].
Gode Ea hahawane dogolegele iasu da Sema nabasu dunu ilima fawane iaha ganiaba, osobo bagade dunu ilia dafawaneyale dawa: su hou da hamedei liligi agoai ba: la: loba, amola Gode Ea hahawane dogolegele iasu da hamedei liligi agoai ba: la: loba.
Gode Ea Sema da dialebeba: le, amo wadela: beba: le, dunu ilia Gode Ea ougi se dabe iasu ba: mu. Be Sema da hame galea, Sema amoma hame nabasu hou amola da hame gala.
16 So it is because [we] trust [in God that we will receive the things that he has promised]. [It is not because we perfectly obey God’s laws. He wants] (to [erase the record of our sins/to declare us no longer guilty]) without our earning it. As a result, what God now promises, he guarantees to give to all people who are [Abraham’s spiritual] descendants. [He promises to do that not only for us Jewish believers], who [have] God’s laws [and trust in him as Abraham did], but also for those [non-Jews who do not have God’s laws but] who trust [in him] as Abraham did. Abraham is the [spiritual] ancestor of all of us [believers].
Amaiba: le, hahawane dogolegele iasu hou bai, amo Gode da Ema dafawaneyale dawa: su hou amoga hamoi. Gode da A: ibalaha: me egaga fi huluane ilima hahawane dogolegele imunu sia: i. Sema nabasu dunu ilima fawane hame. Be nowa dunu e da A: ibalaha: me ea hou defele dafawaneyale dawa: sa, ilima amola. A: ibalaha: me da nini huluanema a: silibu ada agoane esala.
17 What is written {What [Moses] wrote} [in the Scriptures about what God promised Abraham shows that this is true]. [God said to him], “It is in order that you [(sg)] may be the ancestor of many ethnic groups that I have chosen you.” Romans 4:17b-22 God [guaranteed that he would give Abraham many descendants]. Abraham confidently believed that God [would do that],
Gode Sia: da agoane dedei diala, “Na da di fifi asi gala bagohame ilima ada hamoi dagoi.” Gode da bogoi uhinisimusa: dawa: Ea sia: beba: le, musa: hamedafa gala liligi da hamosa. A: ibalaha: me da amo Gode dafawaneyale dawa: i. Amola Gode da amo musa: ilegele sia: i hahawane dogolegele iasu liligi hamoi dagoi.
18 even though there was no physical reason for him to hope [that he would have descendants, because he and his wife were too old to bear children]. But God is the one who causes dead people to live again, and who talks about things that do not yet exist as already existing. [God said to Abraham], “You will have so many descendants that they will be [as impossible to count as the stars].” And Abraham believed that, and he believed that he would become the ancestor of many ethnic groups.
Osobo bagade dunu ilia hou ganodini, Gode Ea hahawane dogolegele iasu amo misa: ne hamoma: beyale da bai hame gala. Be A: ibalaha: me da gasawane dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le, dunu fi bagohame da ea mano agoane hamosu. Gode Sia: dedei amo, “Dia fi dunu lalelegemu da gasumuni idi defele agoane ba: mu.” - amo da dafawane ba: sa.
19 He did not doubt [that God would do what he promised], even though he knew that his body was already [as incapable of begetting children as if he were] dead [MET] because he was about 100 years old. And [even though he realized that] Sarah had never been able to become pregnant [IDM],
A: ibalaha: me da lalelegele, ea esalebe ode idi da gadenene 100 gidigi. Be ea da: i hodo da bogomu gadenei, amola ea uda Sela da mano lamu hamedei, amo mae dawa: le, e da ea dafawaneyale dawa: su hou hame yolesi.
20 he did not doubt at all that God [would do what he had] promised. Instead, he trusted [in God] more/very strongly, and he thanked God [for what God was going to do].
A: ibalaha: me da Gode Ea hahawane dogolegele imunu sia: i dafawaneyale dawa: i galu. Dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le, e da gasawane hamone, Godema nodoi.
21 He was also convinced {very sure} that the thing that God promised, God was able to do.
A: ibalaha: me da Gode da Ea musa: ilegele sia: i dafawane hamomu, amo dafawaneyale dawa: i.
22 And that is the reason that the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}.
Amaiba: le, A:ibalaha: me da Gode Ea hou dafawaneyale dawa: beba: le, “afadenei bu moloidafa hamoi,” Gode da e ba: i dagoi.
23 The words [in the Scriptures], “The record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins},” are not only about Abraham.
Amo sia: , “afadenei bu moloidafa hamoi,” da A: ibalaha: me fawane ea hou olelema: ne hame dedei
24 They were also written {[They] also wrote that} for us whose record of sins would be erased {[God] would erase}. They were written {[They] wrote it} for us who believe [God], the one who caused our Lord Jesus to become alive again after he died.
Be ninia amola ninia hou olelema: ne dedei. Gode da Hina Yesu Gelesu bogoi amo wa: legadolesiba: le, amo ninia dafawaneyale dawa: sea, Gode da nini amola “afadenei bu moloidafa hamoi” ba: mu.
25 Jesus allowed [men] to execute [MTY] him so that [God could forgive] our evil deeds. And [God] caused Jesus to live again because [God wanted to show that because of the death of Jesus he was able to] erase the record of our sins.
Ninia wadela: i hou gogolema: ne olofomusa: , Gode da Yesu Gelesu osobo bagade dunu medole legemusa: , ilima i. Amola Gode da ninia huluane afadenene bu moloidafa hamoi ba: musa: , E da Yesu Gelesu uhini wa: legadolesi.
