Romans 4
1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?
asmAkaM pUrvvapuruSa ibrAhIm kAyikakriyayA kiM labdhavAn Etadadhi kiM vadiSyAmaH?
2 For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;
sa yadi nijakriyAbhyaH sapuNyO bhavEt tarhi tasyAtmazlAghAM karttuM panthA bhavEditi satyaM, kintvIzvarasya samIpE nahi|
3 for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
zAstrE kiM likhati? ibrAhIm IzvarE vizvasanAt sa vizvAsastasmai puNyArthaM gaNitO babhUva|
4 Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:
karmmakAriNO yad vEtanaM tad anugrahasya phalaM nahi kintu tEnOpArjitaM mantavyam|
5 but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
kintu yaH pApinaM sapuNyIkarOti tasmin vizvAsinaH karmmahInasya janasya yO vizvAsaH sa puNyArthaM gaNyO bhavati|
6 Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:
aparaM yaM kriyAhInam IzvaraH sapuNyIkarOti tasya dhanyavAdaM dAyUd varNayAmAsa, yathA,
7 Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
sa dhanyO'ghAni mRSTAni yasyAgAMsyAvRtAni ca|
8 blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.
sa ca dhanyaH parEzEna pApaM yasya na gaNyatE|
9 [Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
ESa dhanyavAdastvakchEdinam atvakchEdinaM vA kaM prati bhavati? ibrAhImO vizvAsaH puNyArthaM gaNita iti vayaM vadAmaH|
10 How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
sa vizvAsastasya tvakchEditvAvasthAyAM kim atvakchEditvAvasthAyAM kasmin samayE puNyamiva gaNitaH? tvakchEditvAvasthAyAM nahi kintvatvakchEditvAvasthAyAM|
11 And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;
aparanjca sa yat sarvvESAm atvakchEdinAM vizvAsinAm AdipuruSO bhavEt, tE ca puNyavattvEna gaNyEran;
12 and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.
yE ca lOkAH kEvalaM chinnatvacO na santO 'smatpUrvvapuruSa ibrAhIm achinnatvak san yEna vizvAsamArgENa gatavAn tEnaiva tasya pAdacihnEna gacchanti tESAM tvakchEdinAmapyAdipuruSO bhavEt tadartham atvakchEdinO mAnavasya vizvAsAt puNyam utpadyata iti pramANasvarUpaM tvakchEdacihnaM sa prApnOt|
13 For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.
ibrAhIm jagatO'dhikArI bhaviSyati yaiSA pratijnjA taM tasya vaMzanjca prati pUrvvam akriyata sA vyavasthAmUlikA nahi kintu vizvAsajanyapuNyamUlikA|
14 For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.
yatO vyavasthAvalambinO yadyadhikAriNO bhavanti tarhi vizvAsO viphalO jAyatE sA pratijnjApi luptaiva|
15 For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.
adhikantu vyavasthA kOpaM janayati yatO 'vidyamAnAyAM vyavasthAyAm AjnjAlagghanaM na sambhavati|
16 Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,
ataEva sA pratijnjA yad anugrahasya phalaM bhavEt tadarthaM vizvAsamUlikA yatastathAtvE tadvaMzasamudAyaM prati arthatO yE vyavasthayA tadvaMzasambhavAH kEvalaM tAn prati nahi kintu ya ibrAhImIyavizvAsEna tatsambhavAstAnapi prati sA pratijnjA sthAsnurbhavati|
17 (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations, ) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;
yO nirjIvAn sajIvAn avidyamAnAni vastUni ca vidyamAnAni karOti ibrAhImO vizvAsabhUmEstasyEzvarasya sAkSAt sO'smAkaM sarvvESAm AdipuruSa AstE, yathA likhitaM vidyatE, ahaM tvAM bahujAtInAm AdipuruSaM kRtvA niyuktavAn|
18 who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:
tvadIyastAdRzO vaMzO janiSyatE yadidaM vAkyaM pratizrutaM tadanusArAd ibrAhIm bahudEzIyalOkAnAm AdipuruSO yad bhavati tadarthaM sO'napEkSitavyamapyapEkSamANO vizvAsaM kRtavAn|
19 and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
aparanjca kSINavizvAsO na bhUtvA zatavatsaravayaskatvAt svazarIrasya jarAM sArAnAmnaH svabhAryyAyA rajOnivRttinjca tRNAya na mEnE|
20 and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;
aparam avizvAsAd Izvarasya pratijnjAvacanE kamapi saMzayaM na cakAra;
21 and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;
kintvIzvarENa yat pratizrutaM tat sAdhayituM zakyata iti nizcitaM vijnjAya dRPhavizvAsaH san Izvarasya mahimAnaM prakAzayAnjcakAra|
22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
iti hEtOstasya sa vizvAsastadIyapuNyamiva gaNayAnjcakrE|
23 Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,
puNyamivAgaNyata tat kEvalasya tasya nimittaM likhitaM nahi, asmAkaM nimittamapi,
24 but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,
yatO'smAkaM pApanAzArthaM samarpitO'smAkaM puNyaprAptyarthanjcOtthApitO'bhavat yO'smAkaM prabhu ryIzustasyOtthApayitarIzvarE
25 who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.
yadi vayaM vizvasAmastarhyasmAkamapi saEva vizvAsaH puNyamiva gaNayiSyatE|
