1 Wat sal ons dan sê, het Abraham, ons vader na die vlees, verkry?
2 Want as Abraham uit die werke geregverdig is, het hy iets om op te roem, maar nie teenoor God nie.
3 Want wat sê die Skrif? Abraham het in God geglo, en dit is hom tot geregtigheid gereken.
4 Maar aan hom wat werk, word die loon nie na guns toegereken nie, maar na verdienste;
5 aan hom egter wat nie werk nie, maar glo in Hom wat die goddelose regverdig, word sy geloof tot geregtigheid gereken.
6 Soos Dawid ook die mens salig spreek aan wie God geregtigheid toereken sonder werke:
7 Welgeluksalig is hulle wie se ongeregtighede vergewe en wie se sondes bedek is.
8 Welgeluksalig is die man aan wie die Here die sonde nie toereken nie.
9 Hierdie saligspreking dan, sien dit op die besnedenes of ook op die onbesnedenes? Want ons sê: Aan Abraham is die geloof tot geregtigheid gereken.
10 Hoe is dit dan toegereken toe hy besnede of onbesnede was? Nie as besnedene nie, maar as onbesnedene.
11 En hy het die teken van die besnydenis ontvang as 'n seël van die geregtigheid van die geloof toe hy nog nie besny was nie; dat hy die vader sou wees van almal wat glo terwyl hulle onbesnede is, sodat ook aan hulle die geregtigheid toegereken sou word;
12 en ook 'n vader van die besnydenis vir die wat nie alleen uit die besnydenis is nie, maar ook wandel in die voetstappe van die geloof van ons vader Abraham toe hy onbesnede was.
13 Want die belofte dat hy erfgenaam van die wêreld sou wees, het Abraham of sy nageslag nie deur die wet verkry nie, maar deur die geregtigheid van die geloof.
14 Want as hulle wat uit die wet is, erfgename is, dan het die geloof waardeloos geword en die belofte tot niet geraak.
15 Want die wet werk toorn; maar waar geen wet is nie, daar is ook geen oortreding nie.
16 Daarom is dit uit die geloof, sodat dit volgens genade kan wees en die belofte kan vasstaan vir die hele nageslag; nie alleen vir die wat uit die wet is nie, maar ook vir die wat uit die geloof van Abraham is, die vader van ons almal
17 soos geskrywe is: Ek het jou 'n vader van baie nasies gemaak voor die aangesig van God in wie hy geglo het, wat die dode lewend maak en die dinge wat nie bestaan nie, roep asof hulle bestaan.
18 Hy het teen hoop op hoop geglo dat hy vader sou word van baie volke volgens wat gesê was: So sal jou nageslag wees.
19 En sonder om te verswak in die geloof het hy, al was hy omtrent honderd jaar oud, nie gelet op sy eie liggaam wat alreeds verstorwe was, en op die verstorwe toestand van die moederskoot van Sara nie.
20 En hy het nie deur ongeloof aan die belofte van God getwyfel nie, maar hy is versterk deur die geloof en het aan God die eer gegee
21 en was ten volle oortuig dat Hy ook die mag het om te doen wat Hy beloof het.
22 Daarom is dit hom ook tot geregtigheid gereken.
23 Maar dit is nie alleen om sy ontwil geskrywe dat dit hom toegereken is nie,
24 maar ook om ons ontwil aan wie dit toegereken sal word, ons wat glo in Hom wat Jesus, onse Here, uit die dode opgewek het,
25 wat oorgelewer is ter wille van ons misdade en opgewek is ter wille van ons regverdigmaking.
1 What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?
2 For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.
3 But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
4 Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
5 But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.
6 As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
7 Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.
8 Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.
9 Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.
10 How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:
11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
13 For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;
15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
16 For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.
18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.
19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
20 Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,
21 And being certain that God was able to keep his word.
22 For which reason it was put to his account as righteousness.
23 Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,
24 But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,
25 Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.