Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
tutisagha kiki kange kuuti uAbulahamu unhaata ghwitu ku lwa m'bili avonike?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
ulwakuva nave uAbulahamu alyavalilue ikyang'haani mumaghendele, aale iva nulwa kwighinia, neke napavulongolo pa Nguluve.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
neke amalembe ghiti ndani?” uAbulahamu alyale ikumwitika uNguluve kange vakam'balila kwa mwene kuuva kyang'haani”
4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
lino kwa muunhu juno ivomba imbombo, uluhombo lwake naluvalilua kuuva vumosi, looli luva lideni.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
neke kwa muunhu juno naivomba imbombo kange ikumwitika umwene juno am'balile ikyang'haani juno nsila vupoki, ulwitiko lwa muunhu ujuo lulvalilua kuuva kyang'haani.
6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
uDavidi ijova isa lufunyo kwa muunhu juno uNguluve am'balile ikyang'haani kisila maghendele.
7 “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
akati, “vafunyilue vala vano uvuhosi vwave vusaghilue na vano isambi saave sikupikilue.
8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
afunyilue umuunhu jula juno uMutwa naim'balila isambi”.
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.
pe ulufunyo ulu lwa vala vano vadumulivue ingola veene, neke nambe ku vala vano navadumulivue ingola saave? ulwakuva twiti, “kwa Abulahamu ulwitiko lwake luvalilue kuuva lwa kyang'haani”.
10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
pe lukavalilue ndani? unsiki uAbulahamu lyale ku ludumuluo, nambe ye akyale kudumulua? najilyale kuvudumulua looli kuvudumulua.
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.
uAbulahamu alyupile ikivalilo kya kudumulua. iki kilyale kye kivalilo kya kyang'haani ja lwitiko luno alyale nalwo ye akyale kudumulivua. amahumile gha kivalilo iki kwe kuuti alyavombike kuuva nhaata ghwa vooni vano vikwitika, nambe nave navali muvudumulua. iji jili nu vufumbue kuuti ikyang'haani jilivalilua ku veene.
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.
iji jili nuvufumbue kuuti uAbulahamu alyavombike nhaata ghwa vadumulua veene looli kange ku vala vano vikusivigilila isajo va nhaata ghwitu uAbulahamu. na ulu lwe lwitiko luno alyale nalwo ku vano navadumulivue.
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.
ulwakuva najilyale ku ndaghilo kuuti ulufingo lukapelilue kwa Abulahamu nu vuholua vwake, ulufingo ulu ulwakuva viiva vahaasi va iisi, pe jilyale kukilila ikyang'haani ja lwitiko.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
ulwakuva ndeve avandaghilo vala vevahaasi ulwitiko lulu lwa vuvule, nu lwitiko lukanilue.
15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
ulwakuva idaghilo jileta ing'alaasi, neke pala pano pasila ndaghilo kange nakwele kusita kukwitikila.
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.
mu lulu jihumila ku lwitiko, neke luve ku vumosi, amahumile ghake ulufingo luvoneke ku vuholua vwoni. na vaholua ava na vevala veene vano vikagula indaghilo liilo na vala vano ve va lwitiko lwa Abulahamu. ulwakuva umwene ghe nhaata ghwitu twevoni,
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.
nave jilembilue kuuti, “nikupelile uve kuuva nhaata ghwa iisi nyinga” uAbulahamu alyale mu lwitiko lwa jula juno alyale mwitiki, kuuti, uNguluve juno ikuvapela avafue uvwumi na kukuvapela sooni sino vasila neke vavisaghe naso.
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.”
nambe kuuva naso sooni, uAbulahamu ku lukangasio alyamwitikile uNguluve ku fighono fino fikwisa. pe lino akava nhaata ghwa iisi nyinga, kuling'aana na kila kino kilyajovilue”, fye luliva uluholuo lwako.
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.
umwene naalyale m'bote vote ku lwitiko. uAbulahamu alyajovile jujuo kuuti um'bili ghwake ghulyafwile - alyale ma maaka kuvelelela kijigho. kange akiting'ine ku vufue vwa lileme lya Sala.
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
neke ulwakuva ulufingo lwa Nguluve, uAbulahamu nakabuhilile kukwitika. pe akaponekisivue ingufu ku lwitiko na kukumughinia uNguluve.
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
alyale ikagula ikyang'haani ku kila kino uNguluve akafingile alyale ni ngufu sa kuvomba.
22 Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
pe lino iji jope jilyavalilue kuuva je kyang'haani.
23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
lino najilyalembilue ku vufumbue vwake lwene kuuti jilyavalilue kwa mwene.
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
jilyalembilue vwimila jiitu kange. vano vavikilue kuvalilua ikyang'haani usue twe viitiki kwa mwene juno alyansiluile uMutwa ghwitu uYesu kuhuma kuvafue.
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
uju ghwe juno uNguluve alyamwumisie vwimila uvuhosi vwitu na kusyukulivua neke tupate kuvalilua ikyang'haani.
