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]
Kalau begitu, apakah yang dapat kita katakan tentang Abraham, nenek moyang bangsa kita? Bagaimanakah pengalamannya?
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].
Kalau hal-hal yang dilakukannya menyebabkan Allah menerima dia sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah, maka ada juga alasan baginya untuk berbangga-bangga. Tetapi ia tidak dapat berbangga di hadapan Allah.
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}.
Dalam Alkitab tertulis, "Abraham percaya kepada Allah, dan karena kepercayaannya ini ia diterima oleh Allah sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah."
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].
Orang yang bekerja, menerima gaji; dan gajinya tidak dianggap sebagai suatu pemberian, sebab itu adalah haknya.
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].
Tetapi ada orang yang tidak bergantung pada usahanya sendiri; ia mempercayakan dirinya kepada Allah yang menyatakan orang berdosa bebas dari kesalahan. Berdasarkan percayanya itulah Allah menerima orang itu sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah.
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]:
Begitulah pendapat Daud juga; itu sebabnya ia mengucapkan selamat berbahagia kepada orang yang oleh Allah sudah diterima sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati-Nya, tanpa Allah memperhatikan perbuatan-perbuatan orang itu. Daud berkata begini,
7 [God] is pleased with people whose sins have been {whose sins [he] has} forgiven, and whose sins he [has decided] to forget [DOU].
"Berbahagialah orang yang kesalahan-kesalahannya dimaafkan dan dosa-dosanya diampuni Allah!
8 [God] causes to be happy the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of.
Berbahagialah orang yang dosa-dosanya tidak dituntut oleh Tuhan!"
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].
Apakah ucapan berbahagia ini ditujukan hanya kepada orang-orang yang menuruti peraturan sunat saja? Ataukah juga kepada orang-orang yang tidak menuruti peraturan sunat? Sudah kami sebut sebelumnya, bahwa Abraham diterima oleh Allah sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati-Nya, karena Abraham percaya kepada Allah.
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.
Nah, kapankah Allah menyatakan hal itu? Sebelum atau sesudah Abraham disunat? Memang sebelum ia disunat, bukan sesudahnya.
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.
Ia disunat kemudian, dan sunatnya itu hanya sebagai tanda bahwa Allah sudah menerimanya sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah, karena percaya kepada Allah. Ia diterima oleh Allah pada waktu ia masih belum mengikuti peraturan sunat. Dan Abraham menjadi bapak secara rohani bagi semua orang yang percaya kepada Allah, dan yang karenanya sudah diterima oleh Allah sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati-Nya, walaupun mereka tidak mengikuti peraturan sunat.
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.
Abraham juga bapak rohani untuk orang-orang yang mengikuti peraturan sunat. Ia bapak rohani mereka bukan hanya karena mereka mengikuti peraturan sunat, tetapi juga karena mereka hidup dengan percaya kepada Allah, sama seperti Abraham pada waktu ia belum mengikuti peraturan sunat.
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.
Allah berjanji kepada Abraham dan keturunannya bahwa dunia ini akan menjadi milik Abraham. Allah berjanji begitu bukan karena Abraham taat kepada hukum agama Yahudi, tetapi karena ia percaya kepada Allah sehingga ia diterima oleh Allah sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati-Nya.
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].
Sebab kalau hanya orang-orang yang taat kepada hukum-hukum agama Yahudi saja yang akan menerima apa yang dijanjikan oleh Allah, maka percaya kepada Allah tidak berguna sama sekali, dan janji Allah pun kosong belaka.
Hukum agama Yahudi mendatangkan hukuman Allah. Tetapi kalau hukum tidak ada, maka pelanggaran pun tidak ada.
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].
Jadi janji Allah itu berdasarkan percayanya orang kepada Allah. Itu menjadi suatu jaminan kepada semua keturunan Abraham bahwa janji itu diberikan kepada mereka sebagai suatu pemberian yang cuma-cuma dari Allah; bukan hanya kepada mereka yang taat kepada hukum agama Yahudi saja, tetapi juga kepada mereka yang percaya kepada Allah sama seperti Abraham percaya kepada-Nya. Sebab Abraham adalah bapak kita semua secara rohani.
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],
Sebab Allah berkata begini kepada Abraham, "Aku sudah menjadikan engkau bapak untuk banyak bangsa." Demikianlah Allah memberikan janji itu kepada Abraham. Dan Abraham percaya kepada-Nya. Dialah Allah yang menghidupkan orang mati; Dialah juga Allah yang dengan berkata saja membuat apa yang tidak pernah ada menjadi ada.
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.
Abraham terus saja berharap dan percaya meskipun tidak ada harapan lagi. Karena itu ia menjadi bapak banyak bangsa. Seperti yang tertulis dalam Alkitab, "Keturunanmu akan menjadi banyak sekali."
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],
Abraham pada waktu itu tahu bahwa ia sudah tidak mungkin lagi mempunyai keturunan, sebab badannya sudah terlalu tua dan umurnya sudah hampir seratus tahun; lagipula Sara, istrinya itu, mandul. Namun iman Abraham tidak menjadi berkurang.
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].
Ia tetap percaya dan tidak ragu-ragu akan janji Allah. Malah imannya menjadikan dia bertambah kuat, sehingga ia memuji-muji Allah.
21 He was also convinced {very sure} that the thing that God promised, God was able to do.
Ia percaya sekali bahwa Allah dapat melakukan apa yang sudah dijanjikan-Nya.
22 And that is the reason that the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}.
Itu sebabnya Abraham diterima oleh Allah sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah.
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.
Perkataan "diterima sebagai orang yang menyenangkan hati Allah" tertulis bukan hanya untuk Abraham sendiri saja,
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.
tetapi juga untuk kita. Kita juga akan diterima sebagai orang yang sudah menyenangkan hati Allah, karena kita percaya kepada Allah yang menghidupkan Yesus, Tuhan kita, dari kematian.
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.
Yesus itu sudah diserahkan untuk dibunuh karena dosa-dosa kita; lalu Ia dihidupkan kembali oleh Allah untuk memungkinkan kita berbaik kembali dengan Allah.
