Romans 4

1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?

What then will we say to have discovered Abraham the (ancestor *N(K)O*) of us according to [the] flesh?

2 If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.

If for Abraham by works was justified, he has ground of boasting but not toward (*k*) God.

3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

What for the Scripture says? Believed then Abraham in God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

4 Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

To the [one] now working the reward not is reckoned according to grace but according to (*k*) debt;

5 However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

To the [one] however not working, believing however on the [One] justifying the ungodly, is reckoned the faith of him for righteousness.

6 And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

just as also David declares the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

7 “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Blessed [are] they of whom are forgiven the lawless deeds and of whom are covered the sins;

8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

blessed [is] [the] man (of whom *N(k)O*) certainly not may reckon [the] Lord sin.

9 Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

[Is] the blessing then this on the circumcision or also on the uncircumcision? We are saying for (that: *k*) was credited to Abraham the faith as righteousness.

10 In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.

How then was it credited? In circumcision being or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision;

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

And [the] sign he received of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith that [he had] [while] in the uncircumcision; for the to be him father of all those believing in uncircumcision, for to be credited also to them the righteousness,

12 And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only but also to those walking in the steps during (the *k*) uncircumcision (of the *k*) faith of the father of us Abraham.

13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Not for through [the] Law [was] the promise to Abraham or to the descendants of him that heir he being (of the *k*) world but through [the] righteousness of faith.

14 For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

If for those of [the] Law [are] heirs, has been made void faith and has been nullified the promise;

15 because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

For law wrath brings; where (now *N(k)O*) no there is law, neither [is] transgression.

16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

Therefore it [is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for to be sure the promise to all the seed, not to that of the law only but also to that of [the] faith of Abraham, who is [the] father of all of us —

17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

even as it has been written that A father of many nations I have made you, before whom he believed God, who is giving life to the dead and calling the [things] not [into] being as existing;

18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

who against hope in hope believed for to become him [the] father of many nations according to that spoken; So will be the offspring of you;

19 Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

And not having become weak in the faith (not *K*) he considered his own body already expired, a hundred years old about being, and the lifelessness of the womb of Sarah,

20 Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

About however the promise of God not he did waver through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God

21 being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

and having been fully assured that what He has promised able He is also to do;

22 This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

23 Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,

Not it was written now on account of him alone that it was credited to him,

24 but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

but also on account of us to whom it is about to be credited, to those believing on the [One] having raised Jesus the Lord of us out from [the] dead,

25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

who was delivered over for the trespasses of us and was raised for the justification of us.