Romans 4
1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has discovered according to the flesh?
Gịnị ka anyị nwere ikwu banyere Ebraham, nna nna anyị na o nwetara ihe niile site nʼanụ ahụ?
2 If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
A sị na a gụrụ Ebraham dịka onye ezi omume site nʼọrụ aka ya, ọ gaara enwe ihe ọ ga-eji anya isi, ma na ọ bụghị nʼihu Chineke.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Ma gịnị ka akwụkwọ nsọ kwuru? “Ebraham kweere na Chineke, a gụrụ nke a nye ya dị ka ezi omume.”
4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as something owed to him.
Mgbe mmadụ rụrụ ọrụ, ụgwọ ọrụ a kwụrụ ya abụghị onyinye, kama ọ bụ ihe ruru ya nʼihi ọrụ ọ rụrụ.
5 However, to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Ma nye onye na-enweghị ọrụ ma tinye okwukwe ya na onye ahụ na-agụnye ndị ajọọ omume dịka ndị ezi omume, a ga-eji okwukwe ya gụnyere ya dịka ezi omume.
6 just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Devid nʼonwe ya kwukwara banyere ọṅụ dịịrị onye ọbụla Chineke gụrụ nʼonye ezi omume nʼagbanyeghị ọrụ ya.
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
“Ngọzị na-adịrị ndị a gbaghaara ajọ omume ha niile, ndị ekpuchikwara mmehie ha niile.
8 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will never count sin.”
Ngọzị na-adịrị nwoke ahụ, onye Onyenwe anyị na-adịghị agụnyere mmehie ya.”
9 Is this blessedness then only for the circumcised, or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, “Faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.”
Ngọzị a ọ dịrị naanị ndị e biri ugwu ka ọ bụ nyekwa ndị a na-ebighị ugwu? Ihe anyị na-ekwu bụ na a gụrụ okwukwe Ebraham dị ka ezi omume nye ya.
10 How then was it counted? When he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.
Olee mgbe a gụrụ ya nye ya? Ọ bụ tupu e bie ya ugwu, ka ọ bụ mgbe e bichara ya ugwu? Ọ bụghị mgbe e bichara ya ugwu kama ọ bụ tupu e bie ya ugwu.
11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe when they are uncircumcised, so that righteousness might be counted to them as well,
Ọ natara ihe ịrịbama nke obibi ugwu dịka akara nke ezi omume nke okwukwe o nwere mgbe ọ nọ na-ebighị ugwu. Nke a bụ ime ya nna ndị niile kweerenụ, ndị ahụ ọ gụrụ dịka ndị ezi omume, ọ bụ ezie na ha bụ ndị a na-ebighị ugwu.
12 and so that he might be the father of those who are not only circumcised in the flesh, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had when he was uncircumcised.
Nʼụzọ dị otu a kwa, ọ bụ nna ndị niile e biri ugwu. Ndụ ya na-egosikwa ha na ọ bụghị obibi ugwu ha na-azọpụta ha, kama ọ bụ okwukwe ha. Nʼihi na Chineke nabatara Ebraham naanị site nʼokwukwe o nwere tupu e bie ya ugwu.
13 For the promise to Abraham, or to his offspring, that he would be the heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Nkwa o kwere Ebraham na agbụrụ ya na ha ga-eketa ụwa abụghị site nʼidebe iwu, kama ọ bụ site nʼezi omume nke okwukwe.
14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void and the promise has been invalidated,
Nʼihi na, ọ bụrụ na ndị a ga-enye ihe e kwere na nkwa bụ ndị na-edebe iwu, inwe okwukwe abakwaghị uru, nkwa ahụ enwekwaghị isi ọbụla.
15 because the law brings wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Nʼihi na iwu nʼonwe ya na-eme ka ọnụma bịa. Ma ebe iwu na-adịghị, mmehie adịghịkwa.
16 For this reason the promise comes by faith, so that it may be according to grace and be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, not only to the one who is of the law, but also to the one who is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Ya mere, nkwa ahụ na-abịa site nʼokwukwe, ka ọ bụrụ naanị site nʼamara ka e ji mee ka ụmụ ya niile nweta ya, ọ bụghị naanị nye ndị nọ nʼokpuru iwu, kama ọ bụkwa nye ndị nwere ụdị okwukwe Ebraham. Nʼihi na ọ bụ nna anyị niile.
17 (just as it is written, “I have made yoʋ the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
Dịka e dere ya, “Emeela m gị nna nke ọtụtụ mba.” Ya mere, nʼihu Chineke ahụ bụ onye o kweenyere nʼime ya, bụ onye ahụ na-eme ka ndị nwụrụ anwụ dịkwa ndụ ọzọ, onye na-akpọkwa ihe ndị na-adịbụghị, mee ka ha dịrị.
18 Against all hope Abraham believed in hope that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: “So shall yoʋr offspring be.”
Ọ bụladị mgbe olileanya gasịrị, o kwenyere na ya ga-abụ nna nke ọtụtụ mba, dịka ihe a gwara ya si dị, “Otu a ka mkpụrụ gị ga-adị.”
19 Because he was not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, now as good as dead (since he was somewhere around a hundred years old), or the deadness of Sarah's womb.
Ọ daghị mba nʼokwukwe ọ bụladị mgbe ọ matara na ya akala nka nʼahụ, nʼihi na ọ gbaruola otu narị afọ, tinyekwara na akpanwa Sera bụ ihe nwụrụ anwụ.
20 And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God
Ọ dịghị mgbe ọbụla o nwere obi abụọ na Chineke agaghị emezu ihe niile o kwere ya na nkwa. Kama, okwukwe ya mere ka ọ gbasie ike, ka ọ na-enye Chineke otuto.
21 and being fully assured that God was able to do what he had promised.
O nwere otu obi na Chineke pụrụ imezu ihe niile ọbụla o kwere na nkwa.
22 Therefore, “it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Ọ bụ nʼihi ya ka e ji gụọ nke a nye ya dị ka ezi omume.
23 Now the statement “it was counted to him” was not written only for Abraham's sake,
Okwu ndị a, “A gụrụ ya nye ya dịka onye ezi omume,” edeghị ya naanị maka ya.
24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Kama e dere ya nʼihi anyị bụ ndị kwere nʼonye ahụ mere ka Onyenwe anyị Jisọs si nʼọnwụ bilie.
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Onye a rara nye ka ọ nwụọ nʼihi mmehie anyị niile, ma e mere ka o si nʼọnwụ bilie ka anyị bụrụ ndị a gụrụ dịka ndị ezi omume.
