Ndị Rom 4
1 Gịnị ka anyị nwere ikwu banyere Ebraham, nna nna anyị na o nwetara ihe niile site nʼanụ ahụ?
What, then, will we say Abraham our father to have found, according to flesh?
2 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.
For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has to boast—but not before God;
3 Ma gịnị ka akwụkwọ nsọ kwuru? “Ebraham kweere na Chineke, a gụrụ nke a nye ya dị ka ezi omume.”
for what does the writing say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness”;
4 Mgbe mmadụ rụrụ ọrụ, ụgwọ ọrụ a kwụrụ ya abụghị onyinye, kama ọ bụ ihe ruru ya nʼihi ọrụ ọ rụrụ.
and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;
5 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.
and to him who is not working, and is believing on Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned for righteousness—
6 Devid nʼonwe ya kwukwara banyere ọṅụ dịịrị onye ọbụla Chineke gụrụ nʼonye ezi omume nʼagbanyeghị ọrụ ya.
even as David also speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 “Ngọzị na-adịrị ndị a gbaghaara ajọ omume ha niile, ndị ekpuchikwara mmehie ha niile.
“Blessed [are] they whose lawless acts were forgiven, And whose sins were covered;
8 Ngọzị na-adịrị nwoke ahụ, onye Onyenwe anyị na-adịghị agụnyere mmehie ya.”
Blessed [is] the man To whom the LORD may not reckon sin.”
9 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.
[Is] this blessedness, then, on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision—for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness?
10 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.
How then was it reckoned? He being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;
11 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.
and he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
12 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.
and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of faith, that [is] in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
13 Nkwa o kwere Ebraham na agbụrụ ya na ha ga-eketa ụwa abụghị site nʼidebe iwu, kama ọ bụ site nʼezi omume nke okwukwe.
For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
14 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.
for if they who are of law [are] heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless;
15 Nʼihi na iwu nʼonwe ya na-eme ka ọnụma bịa. Ma ebe iwu na-adịghị, mmehie adịghịkwa.
for the Law works wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression.
16 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.
Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the Law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham,
17 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.
who is father of us all (according as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you,”) before Him whom he believed—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that are not as being.
18 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.”
Who, against hope, believed in hope, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: “So will your seed be”;
19 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.
and having not been weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead (being about one hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
20 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.
and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,
21 O nwere otu obi na Chineke pụrụ imezu ihe niile ọbụla o kwere na nkwa.
and having been fully persuaded that what He has promised He is also able to do:
22 Ọ bụ nʼihi ya ka e ji gụọ nke a nye ya dị ka ezi omume.
for this reason also it was reckoned to him for righteousness.
23 Okwu ndị a, “A gụrụ ya nye ya dịka onye ezi omume,” edeghị ya naanị maka ya.
And it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,
24 Kama e dere ya nʼihi anyị bụ ndị kwere nʼonye ahụ mere ka Onyenwe anyị Jisọs si nʼọnwụ bilie.
but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who raised up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,
25 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.
who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
