Romans 4
1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Aa ino ty hataon-tika te nioni’ i Abraàme raentika am-bata’e?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, 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 Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
Ino ty tsarae’ o Sokitse Masiñeoo? Natokisa’ i Abraàme t’i Andrianañahare vaho nivolilian-ko havantañañe.
4 Now to the one who works, the pay is not counted as a gift, but as an obligation.
Ie mitoroñe t’indaty, le tsy atao falalàñe ty tambe’e fa zo’e.
5 But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as 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 pronounces blessing on the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
Hambañe amy tsarae’ i Davide ty haeha’ ondaty vinolilin’ Añahare ho vantañe tsy ty amy fitoroña’ey:
7 "Happy are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Haha o nafahan-kakeoo, naho o aman-tahiñe kinolopokeo.
8 Happy is the one whom the Lord will not charge with sin."
Haha t’indaty tsy anaña’ Iehovà hakeo.
9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as 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 credited? When he was 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 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.
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 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.
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 the promise to Abraham and to his descendants that he should be heir of the world was not through the law, 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 those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Fa naho ty mpimane Hake ro mpandova le tsy vara ty fatokisañe vaho kòake ty fitamàñe.
15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Toe minday lafa t’i Hake, fe naho tsy eo lily, tsy eo zehatse.
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 Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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 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.
(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 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."
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 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.
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 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
tsy niankanie’e an-tsi-fatokisañe i nampitaman’ Añaharey, fe nihafatratse am-patokisañe, nandrenge an’ Andrianañahare;
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
ie niantoke do’e te lefen’ Añahare ty hahafonitse i tsinara’ey
22 And therefore "it was credited to him as righteousness."
le vinolily ho havantañañe ama’e.
23 Now it was not written that it was credited to him for his sake alone,
Ie amy zao, tsy ie avao ty nanokirañe te vinolily ho ama’e,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
fa ho volilieñe ka tika mpiato amy nampitroatse Iesoà Talèn-tika an-kavilasiy;
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
ie nasese ty amo hakeon-tikañeo vaho natroatse hañavantañe an-tika.
