1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. 5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

7 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

9 Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them. 12 He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. 18 Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your offspring be." 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. 22 Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness." 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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.