1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?2 For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;3 for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.4 Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:5 but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.6 Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:7 Blessed {they} whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:8 blessed {the} man to whom {the} Lord shall not at all reckon sin.9 {Does} this blessedness then {rest} on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.10 How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.11 And he received {the} sign of circumcision {as} seal of the righteousness of faith which {he had} being in uncircumcision, that he might be {the} father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;12 and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of {the} circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.13 For {it was} not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of {the} world, but by righteousness of faith.14 For if they which {are} of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.15 For law works wrath; but where no law is neither {is there} transgression.16 Therefore {it is} on the principle of faith, that {it might be} according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which {is} of the law, but to that also which {is} of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,17 (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;18 who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:19 and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,20 and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;21 and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.23 Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,24 but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among {the} dead Jesus our Lord,25 who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

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 almal17 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 gegee21 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.