Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
अस्माकं पूर्व्वपुरुष इब्राहीम् कायिकक्रियया किं लब्धवान् एतदधि किं वदिष्यामः?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
स यदि निजक्रियाभ्यः सपुण्यो भवेत् तर्हि तस्यात्मश्लाघां कर्त्तुं पन्था भवेदिति सत्यं, किन्त्वीश्वरस्य समीपे नहि।
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
शास्त्रे किं लिखति? इब्राहीम् ईश्वरे विश्वसनात् स विश्वासस्तस्मै पुण्यार्थं गणितो बभूव।
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
कर्म्मकारिणो यद् वेतनं तद् अनुग्रहस्य फलं नहि किन्तु तेनोपार्जितं मन्तव्यम्।
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
किन्तु यः पापिनं सपुण्यीकरोति तस्मिन् विश्वासिनः कर्म्महीनस्य जनस्य यो विश्वासः स पुण्यार्थं गण्यो भवति।
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
अपरं यं क्रियाहीनम् ईश्वरः सपुण्यीकरोति तस्य धन्यवादं दायूद् वर्णयामास, यथा,
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
स धन्योऽघानि मृष्टानि यस्यागांस्यावृतानि च।
8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
स च धन्यः परेशेन पापं यस्य न गण्यते।
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.
एष धन्यवादस्त्वक्छेदिनम् अत्वक्छेदिनं वा कं प्रति भवति? इब्राहीमो विश्वासः पुण्यार्थं गणित इति वयं वदामः।
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
स विश्वासस्तस्य त्वक्छेदित्वावस्थायां किम् अत्वक्छेदित्वावस्थायां कस्मिन् समये पुण्यमिव गणितः? त्वक्छेदित्वावस्थायां नहि किन्त्वत्वक्छेदित्वावस्थायां।
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.
अपरञ्च स यत् सर्व्वेषाम् अत्वक्छेदिनां विश्वासिनाम् आदिपुरुषो भवेत्, ते च पुण्यवत्त्वेन गण्येरन्;
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.
ये च लोकाः केवलं छिन्नत्वचो न सन्तो ऽस्मत्पूर्व्वपुरुष इब्राहीम् अछिन्नत्वक् सन् येन विश्वासमार्गेण गतवान् तेनैव तस्य पादचिह्नेन गच्छन्ति तेषां त्वक्छेदिनामप्यादिपुरुषो भवेत् तदर्थम् अत्वक्छेदिनो मानवस्य विश्वासात् पुण्यम् उत्पद्यत इति प्रमाणस्वरूपं त्वक्छेदचिह्नं स प्राप्नोत्।
13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
इब्राहीम् जगतोऽधिकारी भविष्यति यैषा प्रतिज्ञा तं तस्य वंशञ्च प्रति पूर्व्वम् अक्रियत सा व्यवस्थामूलिका नहि किन्तु विश्वासजन्यपुण्यमूलिका।
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
यतो व्यवस्थावलम्बिनो यद्यधिकारिणो भवन्ति तर्हि विश्वासो विफलो जायते सा प्रतिज्ञापि लुप्तैव।
15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
अधिकन्तु व्यवस्था कोपं जनयति यतो ऽविद्यमानायां व्यवस्थायाम् आज्ञालङ्घनं न सम्भवति।
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.
अतएव सा प्रतिज्ञा यद् अनुग्रहस्य फलं भवेत् तदर्थं विश्वासमूलिका यतस्तथात्वे तद्वंशसमुदायं प्रति अर्थतो ये व्यवस्थया तद्वंशसम्भवाः केवलं तान् प्रति नहि किन्तु य इब्राहीमीयविश्वासेन तत्सम्भवास्तानपि प्रति सा प्रतिज्ञा स्थास्नुर्भवति।
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.
यो निर्जीवान् सजीवान् अविद्यमानानि वस्तूनि च विद्यमानानि करोति इब्राहीमो विश्वासभूमेस्तस्येश्वरस्य साक्षात् सोऽस्माकं सर्व्वेषाम् आदिपुरुष आस्ते, यथा लिखितं विद्यते, अहं त्वां बहुजातीनाम् आदिपुरुषं कृत्वा नियुक्तवान्।
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.”
त्वदीयस्तादृशो वंशो जनिष्यते यदिदं वाक्यं प्रतिश्रुतं तदनुसाराद् इब्राहीम् बहुदेशीयलोकानाम् आदिपुरुषो यद् भवति तदर्थं सोऽनपेक्षितव्यमप्यपेक्षमाणो विश्वासं कृतवान्।
19 Without being weakened in faith, he did not consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
अपरञ्च क्षीणविश्वासो न भूत्वा शतवत्सरवयस्कत्वात् स्वशरीरस्य जरां सारानाम्नः स्वभार्य्याया रजोनिवृत्तिञ्च तृणाय न मेने।
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
अपरम् अविश्वासाद् ईश्वरस्य प्रतिज्ञावचने कमपि संशयं न चकार;
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
किन्त्वीश्वरेण यत् प्रतिश्रुतं तत् साधयितुं शक्यत इति निश्चितं विज्ञाय दृढविश्वासः सन् ईश्वरस्य महिमानं प्रकाशयाञ्चकार।
22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
इति हेतोस्तस्य स विश्वासस्तदीयपुण्यमिव गणयाञ्चक्रे।
23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
पुण्यमिवागण्यत तत् केवलस्य तस्य निमित्तं लिखितं नहि, अस्माकं निमित्तमपि,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
यतोऽस्माकं पापनाशार्थं समर्पितोऽस्माकं पुण्यप्राप्त्यर्थञ्चोत्थापितोऽभवत् योऽस्माकं प्रभु र्यीशुस्तस्योत्थापयितरीश्वरे
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
यदि वयं विश्वसामस्तर्ह्यस्माकमपि सएव विश्वासः पुण्यमिव गणयिष्यते।
