Romans 4
1 What thanne schulen we seie, that Abraham oure fadir aftir the flesch foond?
What shall we say then that Abraham our father according to flesh has found?
2 For if Abraham is iustified of werkis of the lawe, he hath glorie, but not anentis God.
For if Abraham has been justified on the principle of works, he has whereof to boast: but not before God;
3 For what seith the scripture? Abraham bileued to God, and it was arettid to him to riytwisnesse.
for what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
4 And to hym that worchith mede is not arettid bi grace, but bi dette.
Now to him that works the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but of debt:
5 Sotheli to hym that worchith not, but bileueth in to hym that iustefieth a wickid man, his feith is arettid to riytwisnesse, aftir the purpos of Goddis grace.
but to him who does not work, but believes on him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness.
6 As Dauid seith the blessidnesse of a man, whom God acceptith, he yyueth to hym riytwisnesse with outen werkis of the lawe,
Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:
7 Blessid ben thei, whos wickidnessis ben foryouun, and whos synnes ben hid.
Blessed [they] whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
8 Blessid is that man, to whom God arettide not synne.
blessed [the] man to whom [the] Lord shall not at all reckon sin.
9 Thanne whether dwellith this blisfulnesse oneli in circumcisioun, or also in prepucie? For we seien, that the feith was arettid to Abraham to riytwisnesse.
[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
10 Hou thanne was it arettid? in circumcisioun, or in prepucie? Not in circumcisioun, but in prepucie.
How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he took a signe of circumcisioun, a tokenyng of riytwisnesse of the feith which is in prepucie, that he be fadir of alle men bileuynge bi prepucie, that it be arettid also to hem to riytwisnesse;
And he received [the] sign of circumcision [as] seal of the righteousness of faith which [he had] being in uncircumcision, that he might be [the] father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also;
12 and that he be fadir of circumcisioun, not onely to hem that ben of circumcisioun, but also to hem that suen the steppis of the feith, which feith is in prepucie of oure fader Abraham.
and father of circumcision, not only to those who are of [the] circumcision, but to those also who walk in the steps of the faith, during uncircumcision, of our father Abraham.
13 For not bi the lawe is biheest to Abraham, or to his seed, that he schulde be eir of the world, but bi the riytwisnesse of feith.
For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.
14 For if thei that ben of the lawe, ben eiris, feith is distried, biheest is don awey.
For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.
15 For the lawe worchith wraththe; for where is no lawe, there is no trespas, nethir is trespassyng.
For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.
16 Therfor riytfulnesse is of the feith, that bi grace biheeste be stable to ech seed, not to that seed oneli that is of the lawe, but to that that is of the feith of Abraham, which is fadir of vs alle.
Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,
17 As it is writun, For Y haue set thee fadir of many folkis, bifor God to whom thou hast bileued. Which God quykeneth deed men, and clepith tho thingis that ben not, as tho that ben.
(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations, ) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;
18 Which Abraham ayens hope bileuede in to hope, that he schulde be maad fader of many folkis, as it was seid to hym, Thus schal thi seed be, as the sterris of heuene, and as the grauel that is in the brenke of the see.
who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:
19 And he was not maad vnstidfast in the bileue, nether he biheelde his bodi thanne nyy deed, whanne he was almost of an hundrid yeer, ne the wombe of Sare nyy deed.
and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,
20 Also in the biheeste of God he doutide not with vntrist; but he was coumfortid in bileue,
and hesitated not at the promise of God through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory to God;
21 yyuynge glorie to God, witynge moost fulli that what euere thingis God hath bihiyt, he is myyti also to do.
and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;
22 Therfor it was arettid to hym to riytwisnesse.
wherefore also it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
23 And it is not writun oneli for him, that it was arettid to hym to riytwisnesse,
Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,
24 but also for vs, to whiche it schal be arettid, that bileuen in him that reiside oure Lord Jhesu Crist fro deeth.
but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among [the] dead Jesus our Lord,
25 Which was bitakun for oure synnes, and roos ayen for oure iustefiyng.
who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.
