Rom 3
1 Te dongah Judah hlang kah a banhman te balae? yahvinrhetnah kah a phu tah balae?
What is the pre-eminence of the Jew, then? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 A longim boeih ah a phu muep om. Pathen kah olrhuh te lamhma la amih Judah rhoek a paek ngawn coeng.
Much, in every respect: chiefly, indeed, because they were intrusted with the Oracles of God.
3 Te dongah hlangvangloh a hnalval uh atah metlamlae? Amih kah hnalvalnah loh Pathen taengkah tangnah te hmil tang mahnim?
For, what if some did not believe--will not their unbelief destroy the faithfulness of God?
4 Om mahpawh, om cakhaw Pathen tah thuem. Tedaea daek tangtae bangla hlang boeih he laithae ni. Te daengah ni na ol nehna tang vetih na laitloek vaengahna noeng eh.
By no means. But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou judgest."
5 Tedae mamih kah boethae loh Pathen kah duengnaha tueng sak atah balae n'thui eh? Kosi aka hong Pathen tah halang pawt nim? Hlang vanbangla ka thui lah eh.
But if our unrighteousness display the justice of God, what shall we say? Is not God unjust, who inflicts vengeance? (I speak after the manner of men.)
6 Tetlamte om mahpawh, om koinih metla Pathen loh Diklai he lai a tloek eh?
By no means: otherwise, how shall God judge the world?
7 Tedae kai boethae he Pathen kah oltak loh a thangpomnah tea pungtai sak atah, balae hlangtholh bangla lai ka thui pueng?
Still, if the truth of God has, through my lie, more abounded to his glory, why am I also yet condemned as a sinner--
8 Tedae mamih ah hlangvang loh, “Boethae saii sih, te daengah ni a then ha pawk eh?,” a ti uh bangla soehsal uh boel sih. Laitloeknah tah amih ham om pah pai saeh.
and not because we have done evil that good may come, as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we teach--whose condemnation is just?
9 Te koinih n'rhoei uh a te? Rhoei loeng loeng mahpawh. Judah khaw, Greek khaw, tholh hmuiah boeih om tila n'cawh coeng.
What then? Do we excel? Not at all. For we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles to be all under sin.
10 A daek tangtae vanbangla aka dueng om pawh, khat khaw om pawh.
As it is written, "Surely there is none righteous; no, not one.
11 Aka hmuhming te om pawh, Pathen aka tlap om pawh.
There is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God.
12 Boeih taengphael uh tih rhenten poci uh coeng, boethen aka saii te om pawh. Pakhat khaw om pawh.
They are all gone out of the way: they are together become unprofitable. There is none that does good; there is not so much as one.
13 Amih kah olrhong te hlan bangla ahtih a lai neh thailat uh. A hmui dongah rhulthae kah sue om.
Their throat is an open sepulcher: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 A ka te thaephoeinah neh olkhaa bae.
their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
15 A kho loh thii long sak ham thui.
Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 A longpuei ah pocinah neh ngaidaengnah om.
Destruction and misery lurk in their paths;
17 Te dongah ngaimongnah longpueite ming uh pawh.
but the path of peace they have not known.
18 Amih mik ah Pathen rhihnah om pawh.
There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 Tedae olkhueng loh olkhueng hmuikah rhoeka voek te m'ming uh. Te dongaha kate boeih khuem saeh lamtah Diklai pum tah Pathen kah khotoh khobah la om ve.
Now we know that whatever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be liable to punishment before God.
20 Olkhueng kah bibi loh amah hmaiah pumsa boeih tang sak mahpawh. Olkhueng lamloh tholh mingnah la om.
Wherefore, by works of law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; because through law is the knowledge of sin.
21 Tedae olkhueng neh tonghmarhoek lamloha phong Pathen kah duengnah tah olkhueng voelah phoe coeng.
But now, a justification which is of God, without law, is exhibited, attested by the law and the prophets:
22 Pathen kah duengnah tah Jesuh Khrih kah tangnah lamloh aka tangnah rhoek boeih taengah hlihloehnaha om moenih.
even a justification which is of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, for all, and upon all, who believe; for there is no difference.
23 Hlang boeih he tholh uh tih Pathen kah thangpomnah tea phavawt uh.
For all, having sinned and come short of the glory of God,
24 Jesuh Khrih ah tlannah rhangneh a lungvatnahloh a yoeyap la n'tang sak.
are justified freely by his favor, through the redemption which is by Christ Jesus:
25 Anihte Pathen loh a duengnah mingphnanah la a thii dongkah tangnah rhangneh dawthnahlaa hmoel.
whom God has set forth a propitiatory, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his own justice, in passing by the sins which were before committed, through the forbearance of God:
26 Pathen kah uehnah dongah tholhsainah rhuem te hmilhnah la, tahae tue vaengah a duengnah te mingphanah la, Jesuh tangnah dongkah rhoek te aka dueng neh aka tang la aka om sak la om.
for a demonstration, also, of his justice in the present time, in order that he may be just, when justifying him, who is of the faith of Jesus.
27 Te koinih hoemdamnah tah melama khoe, ba olkhueng nen lae? mekah khoboe nen lae? Moenih, tangnah kah olkhueng nen dae ni.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.
28 Olkhueng kah khoboe voelah hlang he tangnahloh a tang sak ni m'poek uh.
We conclude, then, that by faith man is justified, without works of law.
29 Te phoeiah Pathen tah Judahrhoek bueng kah a? Namtom rhoek kah van moenih a? Ue namtom rhoek kah van ta.
Is he the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles, also? Yes, of the Gentiles, also.
30 A tangtang atah tangnah neh yahvinrhetnah khaw, tangnah neh pumdul khaw Pathen pakhat long ni a tang sak eh.
Seeing there is one God, he will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.
31 Te dongah tangnah lamloh olkhueng te m'hmil uh pawn a? A hmil pawt dongah olkhueng ni lat m'pai puei uh.
Do we, then, make law useless through the faith? By no means: but we establish law.
