Romans 4

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

What then shall we say that our father Abraham discovered, as a man?

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

If Abraham was really justified by works, he has a boast—but not before God.

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

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

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

Now to him who works, the pay is not counted as a gift but as an obligation.

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

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

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

Just as David speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

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

“Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered up.

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

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin!”

9 [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.

Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? Since we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness,

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

how then was it credited? After he was circumcised or while still uncircumcised? Not circumcised, but uncircumcised!

11 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,

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness from his faith while still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, in order that this righteousness may be credited to them also,

12 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.

and the father of the circumcised—not only those who are circumcised, but especially those who follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham while still uncircumcised.

13 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.

Now the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or his seed, through law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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

For if those who are of law are heirs, the faith is made empty and the promise has been invalidated;

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

because the law produces wrath, since where there is no law neither is there transgression.

16 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 —

For this reason it is of faith so that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise be guaranteed to all the seed—not only to those of law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all;

17 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;

just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations”—in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the nonexistent things as though they did exist.

18 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;

Contrary to hope, Abraham in hope believed, so as to become a father of many ethnic nations, according to what had been spoken: “So shall your seed be.”

19 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,

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (being about a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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

He did not waver at God's promise in unbelief; rather, he was strengthened by the faith, giving glory to God,

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

being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform

22 Therefore also it was credited to him unto righteousness.

—that is why it was credited to him as righteousness.

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

Now it was not only for his sake that it was written that it was credited to him,

24 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,

but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, we who believe on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

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

who was delivered up because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.