Romanos 4

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."✝4:3 Genesis 15:6 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."✝4:8 Psalms 32:1-2

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."✝4:17 Genesis 17:5 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."✝4:18 Genesis 15:5 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."✝4:22 Genesis 15:6 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.

Te Tauira a Āperahama

1 He aha rā, ki tā tātou, te mea i riro i a Āperahama, i tō tātou tupuna i runga i te kikokiko? 2 Mehemea hoki nā ngā mahi i tika ai a Āperahama, he mea tāna e whakamanamana ai ia; otirā, kāhore ki te Atua. 3 E pēhea ana oti tā te karaipiture? "I whakapono a Āperahama ki te Atua, ā, whakairia ana hei tika mōna."

4 Nā, he tangata e mahi ana, e kore e kīia te utu mōna he mea aroha noa, engari, he mea mō tāna. 5 Otirā, ko te tangata kāhore e mahi, engari, e whakapono ana ki te kaiwhakatika i te tangata karakiakore, ka whakairia tōna whakapono hei tika mōna. 6 Pērā hoki me tā Rāwiri kōrero i te manaaki ki te tangata, ka whakairia nei e te Atua he tika ki a ia, motu kē i ngā mahi. 7 I kī ai ia:

"Ka hari te hunga

kua oti ā rātou mahi tutū te muru,

ō rātou hara te hīpoki!

8 Ka hari te tangata

e kore nei e whakairia e te Ariki he hara ki a ia."

9 E kōrerotia ana rānei tēnei haringa mō te kotinga, mō te kotingakore anō rānei? E mea ana hoki tātou, "I whakairia tōna whakapono hei tika mō Āperahama." 10 He pēhea rā te whakairinga? I a ia i te kotinga, i te kotingakore rānei? He teka i a ia i te kotinga, engari, i te kotingakore, 11 ā, riro ana i a ia te kotinga hei tohu, hei hīri mō te tika o tōna whakapono, i a ia i te kotingakore. Kia waiho ai ia hei matua ki te hunga katoa e whakapono ana, ahakoa kāhore rātou i kotia, kia whakairia ai te tika ki a rātou; 12 hei matua anō mō te kotinga ki te hunga ehara i te mea nō te kotinga anake, engari, e takahi ana hoki i runga i ngā tapuae o taua whakapono o tō tātou matua, o Āperahama, i a ia kāhore anō i kotia.

Mā te Whakapono e Tukuna mai ai te Kī Taurangi a te Atua

13 Ehara i te mea i nā runga mai i te ture te kupu ki a Āperahama rātou ko ōna uri mō te ao ka riro i a ia; engari, i nā runga mai i te tika o te whakapono. 14 Mehemea hoki ka riro i te hunga ture, kua tikangakore te whakapono, kua taka te kupu whakaari. 15 Ko tā te ture hoki e mahi ai, he riri; engari, ki te kāhore he ture, kāhore hoki he hara.

16 Koia i nā rototia ai i te whakapono, kia waiho ai mā te aroha noa; kia ū ai te kupu whakaari ki te whānau katoa; ehara i te mea ki tō te ture anake, engari, ki tō te whakapono anō o Āperahama, ko ia nei hoki te matua o tātou katoa, 17 ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia, "Kua waiho koe e ahau hei matua ki ngā iwi maha," he matua i te aroaro o tāna i whakapono ai, arā o te Atua, e whakaora nei i ngā tūpāpaku, e karanga nei i ngā mea kua kāhore me te mea kei konei nei anō.

18 Ahakoa kāhore he rawa, ū tonu tōna mānakonako ki a ia, kia meinga ai ia hei matua mō ngā iwi maha, pērā me te mea i kōrerotia, "Ka pēnei tāu whānau." 19 Kīhai anō i ngoikore tōna whakapono, i mahara iho ia ki tōna tinana, he pēnei me te mea kua tūpāpakutia, wāhi iti hoki kua kotahi rau ōna tau, ki te tūpāpakutanga hoki o te kōpū o Hera. 20 Āe, i titiro ia ki te kupu whakaari a te Atua, kīhai ia i ruarua i runga i te whakapono kore, engari, ka kaha tonu tōna whakapono, me te whakakorōria ki te Atua. 21 Ū tonu hoki tōna whakaaro e taea e ia te mea tāna i kōrero ai. 22 Koia hoki "I whakairia ai ki a ia hei tika." 23 Otirā, ehara i te mea he whakaaro ki a ia anake i tuhituhia ai taua whakairinga ki a ia; 24 engari, he whakaaro ki a tātou anō hoki; ka whakairia ki a tātou e whakapono nei ki te kaiwhakaara i a Īhu, i tō tātou Ariki, i te hunga mate. 25 I tukua nei mō ō tātou hē, i whakaarahia mō tātou kia whakatikaia.