Romans 4
1 What, then, will we say Abraham our father to have found, according to flesh?
Aa ino ty hataon-tika te nioni’ i Abraàme raentika am-bata’e?
2 For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has to boast—but not before God;
fa naho o fimanea’eo ty nañavàntañe i Abraàme, le amam-pisengea’e re, fe tsy añatrefan’ Añahare.
3 for what does the writing say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness”;
Ino ty tsarae’ o Sokitse Masiñeoo? Natokisa’ i Abraàme t’i Andrianañahare vaho nivolilian-ko havantañañe.
4 and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;
Ie mitoroñe t’indaty, le tsy atao falalàñe ty tambe’e fa zo’e.
5 and to him who is not working, and is believing on Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned for righteousness—
Fe amy tsy mitoroñe fa miato amy Mpañavantañe ty tsy aman-Kàkeiy, le volilieñe ho havantaña’e i fatokisa’ey.
6 even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
Hambañe amy tsarae’ i Davide ty haeha’ ondaty vinolilin’ Añahare ho vantañe tsy ty amy fitoroña’ey:
7 “Blessed [are] they whose lawless acts were forgiven, And whose sins were covered;
Haha o nafahan-kakeoo, naho o aman-tahiñe kinolopokeo.
8 Blessed [is] the man To whom the LORD may not reckon sin.”
Haha t’indaty tsy anaña’ Iehovà hakeo.
9 [Is] this blessedness, then, on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision—for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness?
O sinavatseo avao hao ro haha, ke o tsy sinavatseo ka? amy nataon-tika te nivolilieñe ho havantañañe amy Abraàme i fatokisa’ey.
10 How then was it reckoned? He being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;
Akore ty namoliliañe aze? Ie fa sinavatse hao, ke ie mbe tsi-afa-boy. Toe ie tsy nisavatse naho mbe tsi-tinampake!
11 and he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
Aa le rinambe’e ho viloñe i savatsey; ho voli-fitombo’ i havantañam-patokisa’ey, ie mbe tsy niafa-boiñey. Toly ndra ie ty rae’ o mpiato tsy sinavatseo, hamoliliañe iareo ho vantañe.
12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of faith, that [is] in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
Ie ka ty rae’ o sinavatseo, tsy o niafa-boiñeo avao fa o mañavelo amy fatokisa’ i Abraàme raen-tikañey t’ie mbe tsy nisavareñeo.
13 For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
Tsy añamy Hake fa amy havantañam-patokisañey ty nampitamañe i Abraàme naho o tarira’eo t’ie ty handova ty voatse toy.
14 for if they who are of law [are] heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless;
Fa naho ty mpimane Hake ro mpandova le tsy vara ty fatokisañe vaho kòake ty fitamàñe.
15 for the Law works wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression.
Toe minday lafa t’i Hake, fe naho tsy eo lily, tsy eo zehatse.
16 Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the Law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham,
Ie amy zao, le fatokisañe añamy fatarihañey, hamenteañe ty nampitamañe ze hene tariratse, tsy ze amy Hàke avao, fa amo mpitrao-patokisañe amy Abrahàmeo ka, ie raen-tikañe iaby,
17 who is father of us all (according as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you,”) before Him whom he believed—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that are not as being.
(Fa hoe ty pinatetse: Fa nanoeko raem-pifeheañe maro irehe) ie añatrefa’ i natokisa’ey, i Andrianañahare mameloñe o nihomakeo vaho mikanjy o raha tsy eoo ho eoy.
18 Who, against hope, believed in hope, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: “So will your seed be”;
Ie ho nilesa ty fisalala’e, mb’e niantofa’e i nampitamañey, t’ie ho raem-pifeheañe maro, ty amy nitsaraeñe ama’ey, te: Ho mira amy zay o tarira’oo.
19 and having not been weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead (being about one hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
Tsy nimokotse i fatokisa’ey, tsy hinao’e i sandri’e fa hihomakey—ie niha-zato taoñe—naho ty hamodoa’ ty trañon’ ana’ i Sarae;
20 and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,
tsy niankanie’e an-tsi-fatokisañe i nampitaman’ Añaharey, fe nihafatratse am-patokisañe, nandrenge an’ Andrianañahare;
21 and having been fully persuaded that what He has promised He is also able to do:
ie niantoke do’e te lefen’ Añahare ty hahafonitse i tsinara’ey
22 for this reason also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
le vinolily ho havantañañe ama’e.
23 And it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,
Ie amy zao, tsy ie avao ty nanokirañe te vinolily ho ama’e,
24 but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,
fa ho volilieñe ka tika mpiato amy nampitroatse Iesoà Talèn-tika an-kavilasiy;
25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
ie nasese ty amo hakeon-tikañeo vaho natroatse hañavantañe an-tika.
