Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Avraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
| پس چه چیز را بگوییم که پدر ما ابراهیم بحسب جسم یافت؟ | ۱ |
2 For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
| زیرا اگر ابراهیم به اعمال عادل شمرده شد، جای فخر دارد اما نه درنزد خدا. | ۲ |
3 For what does the Scripture say? And Avraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
| زیرا کتاب چه می‌گوید؟ «ابراهیم به خدا ایمان آورد و آن برای او عدالت محسوب شد.» | ۳ |
4 Now to the one who works, the pay is not counted as a gift, but as an obligation.
| لکن برای کسی‌که عمل می‌کند، مزدش نه ازراه فیض بلکه از راه طلب محسوب می‌شود. | ۴ |
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
| واما کسی‌که عمل نکند، بلکه ایمان آورد به او که بی‌دینان را عادل می‌شمارد، ایمان او عدالت محسوب می‌شود. | ۵ |
6 Even as Dawid also pronounces blessing on the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
| چنانکه داود نیز خوش حالی آن کس را ذکر می‌کند که خدا برای او عدالت محسوب می‌دارد، بدون اعمال: | ۶ |
7 "Happy are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
| «خوشابحال کسانی که خطایای ایشان آمرزیده شد وگناهانشان مستور گردید؛ | ۷ |
8 Happy is the one whom the Lord will not charge with sin."
| خوشابحال کسی‌که خداوند گناه را به وی محسوب نفرماید.» | ۸ |
9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was credited to Avraham as righteousness.
| پس آیا این خوشحالی بر اهل ختنه گفته شدیا برای نامختونان نیز؟ زیرا می‌گوییم ایمان ابراهیم به عدالت محسوب گشت. | ۹ |
10 How then was it credited? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
| پس در چه حالت محسوب شد، وقتی که او در ختنه بود یادر نامختونی؟ در ختنه نی، بلکه در نامختونی؛ | ۱۰ |
11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be credited to them.
| و علامت ختنه را یافت تا مهر باشد بر آن عدالت ایمانی که در نامختونی داشت، تا او همه نامختونان را که ایمان آورند پدر باشد تا عدالت برای ایشان هم محسوب شود؛ | ۱۱ |
12 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 Avraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
| و پدر اهل ختنه نیز یعنی آنانی را که نه فقط مختونند بلکه سالک هم می‌باشند بر آثار ایمانی که پدر ماابراهیم در نامختونی داشت. | ۱۲ |
13 For the promise to Avraham and to his descendants that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
| زیرا به ابراهیم و ذریت او، وعده‌ای که اووارث جهان خواهد بود، از جهت شریعت داده نشد بلکه از عدالت ایمان. | ۱۳ |
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
| زیرا اگر اهل شریعت وارث باشند، ایمان عاطل شد و وعده باطل. | ۱۴ |
15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
| زیرا که شریعت باعث غضب است، زیرا جایی که شریعت نیست تجاوز هم نیست. | ۱۵ |
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 descendants, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Avraham, who is the father of us all.
| و ازاین جهت از ایمان شد تا محض فیض باشد تاوعده برای همگی ذریت استوار شود نه مختص به ذریت شرعی بلکه به ذریت ایمانی ابراهیم نیزکه پدر جمیع ما است، | ۱۶ |
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.
| (چنانکه مکتوب است که تو را پدر امت های بسیار ساخته‌ام )، در حضورآن خدایی که به او ایمان آورد که مردگان را زنده می‌کند و ناموجودات را به وجود می‌خواند؛ | ۱۷ |
18 Who hoped in spite of hopeless circumstances, with the result that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "so will your descendants be."
| که او در ناامیدی به امید ایمان آورد تا پدرامت های بسیار شود، برحسب آنچه گفته شد که «ذریت تو چنین خواهند بود.» | ۱۸ |
19 And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
| و در ایمان کم قوت نشده، نظر کرد به بدن خود که در آن وقت مرده بود، چونکه قریب به صد ساله بود و به رحم مرده ساره. | ۱۹ |
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
| و در وعده خدا از بی‌ایمانی شک ننمود، بلکه قوی الایمان گشته، خدا را تمجیدنمود، | ۲۰ |
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
| و یقین دانست که به وفای وعده خود نیزقادر است. | ۲۱ |
22 And therefore "it was credited to him as righteousness."
| و از این جهت برای او عدالت محسوب شد. | ۲۲ |
23 Now it was not written that it was credited to him for his sake alone,
| ولکن اینکه برای وی محسوب شد، نه برای او فقط نوشته شد، | ۲۳ |
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead,
| بلکه برای ما نیزکه به ما محسوب خواهد شد، چون ایمان آوریم به او که خداوند ما عیسی را از مردگان برخیزانید، | ۲۴ |
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
| که به‌سبب گناهان ما تسلیم گردید و به‌سبب عادل شدن ما برخیزانیده شد. | ۲۵ |
