रोमी 3
1 त्यसो भए यहूदीलाई के फाइदा छ त? अनि खतनाको के फाइदा छ त?
What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision?
2 यो हरतरहले महान् छ । सर्वप्रथम त परमेश्वरको प्रकाश यहूदीलाई सुम्पिएको थियो ।
Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God’s utterances.
3 किनकि केही यहूदीहरू विनाविश्वासका भए भन्दैमा के भयो त? के तिनीहरूको अविश्वासले परमेश्वरको विश्वासयोग्यतालाई अमान्य तुल्याउँछ र?
What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid!
4 कहिल्यै यस्तो नहोस् । यसको सट्टा, सबै मानिस झुटा ठहरिए तापनि परमेश्वर नै सत्य भेट्टाइनुभएको होस् । यस्तो लेखिएको छ, “तपाईंलाई आफ्ना वचनहरूमा धर्मी देखाइयोस्, अनि न्यायको दिनमा आउनुहुँदा तपाईं विजय हुनसक्नुभएको होस् ।”
God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God – ‘That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.’
5 तर यदि हाम्रो अधार्मिकताले परमेश्वरको धार्मिकतालाई देखाउँछ भने हामी के भन्न सक्छौ र? परमेश्वरले उहाँको क्रोध प्रकट गर्नुहुँदा उहाँ अधर्मी ठहरिनुहुन्न, के अधर्मी ठहरिनुहुन्छ त? म मानवीय तर्कअनुसार बोलिरहेको छु ।
But what if our wrongdoing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid!
6 कहिल्यै यस्तो नहोस्! किनकि त्यसो भए त परमेश्वरले कसरी संसारको न्याय गर्नुहुन्छ?
Otherwise how can God judge the world?
7 तर यदि मेरो झुटद्वारा परमेश्वरको सत्यताले उहाँको निम्ति प्रशस्त प्रशंसा प्रदान गर्छ भने मलाई अझ पनि किन पापीको रूपमा न्याय गरिन्छ त?
But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner?
8 किन नभनौँ, जसरी हामीलाई झुटो रूपमा आरोप लगाइन्छ, र केहीले पुष्टि गर्छन्, कि हामी भन्छौँ, “दुष्ट काम गरौँ, ताकि असल आओस् ।” तिनीहरूमाथिको न्याय उचित छ ।
Why should we not say – as some people slanderously assert that we do say – ‘Let us do evil that good may come’? The condemnation of such people is indeed just!
9 त्यसो भए के त? के हामी आफैँले आफ्नो सफाइ दिँदै छौँ? त्यसो नहोस्! किनकि यहूदीहरू र ग्रिकहरू सबै पापको अधीनमा थिए भनी हामीले पहिले नै दोष लगाइसकेका छौँ ।
What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.
10 यस्तो लेखिएको छ, “धर्मी कोही छैन, एक जना पनि छैन ।
As scripture says – ‘There is not even one who is righteous,
11 बुझ्ने कोही पनि छैन । परमेश्वरलाई खोज्ने कोही पनि छैन ।
not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!
12 तिनीहरू सबै तर्केर गएका छन् । तिनीहरू सबै जना एकैसाथ अनुपयोगी भएका छन् । असल गर्ने कोही पनि छैन, अहँ, एक जना पनि छैन ।
They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good – no, not one!’
13 तिनीहरूको घाँटी खुल्ला चिहान हो । तिनीहरूका जिब्राले छल गरेका छन् । तिनीहरूका ओठहरूमा सर्पको विष छ ।
‘Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.’ ‘The venom of snakes lies behind their lips,’
14 तिनीहरूका मुख श्राप र तिक्तताले भरिएका छन् ।
‘And their mouths are full of bitter curses.’
15 तिनीहरूका खुट्टा रगत बगाउनमा द्रूत छन् ।
‘Swift are their feet to shed blood.
16 विनाश र कष्ट तिनीहरूका मार्गहरूमा छन् ।
Distress and trouble dog their steps,
17 यी मानिसहरूले शान्तिको मार्ग जानेका छैनन् ।
and the path of peace they do not know.’
18 तिनीहरूका आँखाको सामुन्ने परमेश्वरको डर छैन ।
‘The fear of God is not before their eyes.’
19 अब हामी जान्दछौँ, कि व्यवस्थाले जे भन्दछ त्यो व्यवस्थाको अधीनमा बस्नेहरू कै लागि भन्छ । यो हरेक मुख बन्द होस् भन्नाका लागि हो, ताकि सारा संसार परमेश्वरप्रति जवाफदेही हुन सकून् ।
Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and to bring the whole world under God’s judgment.
20 उहाँको दृष्टिमा व्यवस्थाका कामहरूद्वारा कुनै पनि मानिस धर्मी नठहरिने हुनाले यसो भएको हो । किनकि व्यवस्थाद्वारा नै पापको ज्ञान आउँछ ।
For no human being will be pronounced righteous before God as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.
21 तर अब व्यवस्थाविना नै परमेश्वरको धर्मीकता प्रकट गरिएको छ । यसलाई व्यवस्था र अगमवक्ताहरूद्वारा साक्षी दिइएको छ,
But now, quite apart from Law, the divine righteousness stands revealed, and to it the Law and the prophets bear witness –
22 अर्थात् यो विश्वास गर्ने सबैका निम्ति येशू ख्रीष्टमा विश्वासद्वारा आउने परमेश्वरको धार्मिकता हो । किनकि त्यहाँ कुनै भेदभाव छैन ।
the divine righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, on all, without distinction, who believe in him.
23 किनकि सबैले पाप गरेका छन् र परमेश्वरको महिमासम्म पुग्न चुकेका छन् ।
For all have sinned, and all fall short of God’s glorious ideal,
24 ख्रीष्टमा भएको छुटकाराद्वारा तिनीहरू सित्तैँमा धर्मी ठहराइन्छन् ।
but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
25 किनकि परमेश्वरले येशू ख्रीष्टको रगतमा विश्वासद्वारा प्रायश्चित्तको रूपमा उहाँलाई अर्पण गर्नुभयो । उहाँको धैर्यमा विगतका पापको बेवास्ता गर्नुभएकोले उहाँले ख्रीष्टलाई उहाँको न्यायको प्रमाणको रूपमा अर्पण गर्नुभयो ।
For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that people had previously committed;
26 यी सबै कुरा वर्तमान समयमा उहाँको धार्मिकता प्रदर्शन गर्नका निम्ति भएका थिए । उहाँ आफैँलाई न्यायी प्रमाणित गर्न सक्नुभएको होस् र उहाँले येशूमाथिको विश्वासले कुनैलाई पनि धर्मी ठहराउनुहुन्छ भन्ने देखाउन यसो भयो ।
as a proof, I repeat, at the present time, of his own righteousness, that he might be righteous in our eyes, and might pronounce righteous the person who takes their stand on faith in Jesus.
27 घमण्ड कहाँ गर्ने? यो त हटाइएको छ । केको आधारमा? कामहरूको आधारमा? होइन, तर विश्वासको आधारमा हो ।
What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.
28 तब हामी निचोडमा आउँछौँ, कि कुनै पनि व्यक्ति व्यवस्थाका कामहरूविना नै विश्वासद्वारा धर्मी ठहरिन्छ ।
For we conclude that a person is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.
29 अथवा के परमेश्वर यहूदीहरूका मात्रै परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ त? के उहाँ गैरयहूदीहरूका परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्न र? हो, उहाँ गैरयहूदीहरूका पनि परमेश्वर हुनुहुन्छ ।
Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles?
30 यदि वास्तवमै परमेश्वर एक हुनुहुन्छ भने उहाँले खतना भएकाहरूलाई विश्वासद्वारा धर्मी ठहराउनुहुन्छ, र खतना नभएकाहरूलाई पनि विश्वासद्वारा नै धर्मी ठहराउनुहुन्छ ।
Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one God, and he will pronounce those who are circumcised righteous as the result of faith, and also those who are uncircumcised on their showing the same faith.
31 के हामीले विश्वासद्वारा व्यवस्थालाई रद्द गर्छौं त? कहिल्यै यस्तो नहोस्! बरु, हामीले व्यवस्थालाई कायम पो राख्छौँ ।
Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
