रोमी 4
1 तब हामी के भनौँ त? हाम्रा पुर्खा अब्राहामले शरीरअनुसार के पाए त?
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
2 यदि अब्राहाम कामद्वारा धर्मी ठहरिएका भए, उनले घमण्ड गर्ने कारण हुन्थ्यो, तर परमेश्वरको सामु त होइन ।
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
3 किनकि धर्मशास्त्रले के भन्छ? “अब्राहामले परमेश्वरमा विश्वास गरे, र यो उनको निम्ति धार्मिकता गनियो ।”
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
4 अब जसले काम गर्छ, त्यसको ज्यालालाई अनुग्रहको रूपमा गनिँदैन, तर पाउनुपर्ने कुराको रूपमा गनिन्छ ।
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
5 तर त्यसको निम्ति जसले काम गर्दैन, तर त्यसको सट्टा अधर्मीलाई धर्मी ठहराउनुहुनेमा विश्वास गर्छ, त्यसको विश्वासलाई धार्मिकताको रूपमा गनिन्छ ।
But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
6 दाऊदले पनि कामविना नै परमेश्वरले धार्मिकता गान्नुभएको मानिसलाई आशिष् घोषणा गर्छन् ।
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 उनले भने, “ती धन्य हुन्, जसका अधर्महरू क्षमा भएका छन् र जसका पापहरू ढाकिएका छन् ।”
“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
8 त्यो मानिस धन्यको हो, जसको विरुद्धमा परमेश्वरले पापको लेखा राख्नुहुन्न ।”
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”
9 तब के यो आशिष् केवल ती खतना भएकाहरूका लागि मात्रै भनिएको हो वा ती खतना नगरिएकाहरूका लागि पनि भनिएको हो? किनकि हामी भन्छौँ, “अब्राहामको निम्ति विश्वास धार्मिकताको रूपमा गनियो ।”
Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 त्यसो हो भने, यो कसरी गनियो त? अब्राहाम खतनामा हुँदा वा बेखतना हुँदा? यो खतनामा हुँदा भएको थिएन, तर बेखतनामा हुँदा भएको थियो ।
How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 अब्राहामले खतनाको चिन्ह पाए । यो विश्वासको धार्मिकताको छाप थियो, जुन उनी बेखतनाको हुँदा नै पाइसकेका थिए । यो चिन्हको परिणामचाहिँ तिनीहरू बेखतनामै भए तापनि उनी विश्वास गर्ने सबैका पिता भए । यसको मतलब यो हो, कि त्यो धार्मिकता तिनीहरूको निम्ति धार्मिकता गनिनेछ ।
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
12 यसको अर्थ यो हो, कि अब्राहाम खतनाबाट आएकाहरूका निम्ति मात्र होइन, तर हाम्रा पिता अब्राहामको कदम पछ्याउनेहरूका निम्ति पनि पिता भए । र उनी बेखतनामा हुँदा नै उनीसँग विश्वास थियो ।
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
13 किनकि अब्राहाम र उनका सन्तानहरूलाई दिइएको प्रतिज्ञा अर्थात् तिनीहरू संसारको उत्तराधिकार हुने प्रतिज्ञा व्यवस्थाद्वारा दिइएको थिएन । बरु, यो विश्वासको धार्मिकताद्वारा थियो ।
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 किनकि यदि ती व्यवस्थाकाहरू उत्तराधिकारीहरू हुन् भने विश्वासीलाई त रित्तो बनाइयो र प्रतिज्ञालाई रद्द गरियो ।
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
15 किनकि व्यवस्थाले क्रोध ल्याउँछ, तर जहाँ व्यवस्था छैन त्यहाँ अनाज्ञाकारिता हुँदैन ।
For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
16 यसैले, यो विश्वासद्वारा हुन्छ, ताकि त्यो अनुग्रहद्वारा हुन सकोस् । परिणामस्वरूप, प्रतिज्ञा सारा सन्तानहरूका निम्ति निश्चित छ । अनि यी सन्तानहरूले केवल व्यवस्था जान्नेहरूलाई मात्र होइन, तर ती अब्राहामको विश्वासबाट आएकाहरूलाई पनि समेट्छन् । किनकि उनी हामी सबैका पिता हुन् ।
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17 जस्तो लेखिएको छ, “मैले तिमीलाई धेरै जातिहरूका पिता बनाएको छु ।” अब्राहाम आफूले भरोसा गरेका परमेश्वरको उपस्थितिमा थिए, जसले मरेकालाई जीवन दिनुहुन्छ र अस्तित्वमा नभएका थोकहरूलाई अस्तित्वमा ल्याउन सक्नुहुन्छ ।
As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
18 यी सारा बाहिरी परिस्थितिहरूका बाबजुद पनि भविष्यको निम्ति अब्राहामले परमेश्वरमा दृढतासाथ भरोसा गरे । त्यसैले, उनी “तेरा सन्तानहरू यस्तै हुनेछन्” भनिएअनुसार धेरै जातिहरूका पिता बने ।
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
19 उनी विश्वासमा कमजोर थिएनन् । अब्राहामले बुझे, कि उनको शरीर बालक जन्माउन समर्थ थिएन (किनकि उनी करिब एक सय वर्ष पुगेका थिए) । साराको कोख पनि बालक पैदा गर्न समर्थ थिएन भन्ने पनि उनले स्वीकार गरे ।
Without being weakened in faith, he did not consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 तर परमेश्वरको प्रतिज्ञाका कारण, अब्राहाम अविश्वासमा रोकिएनन् । बरु, उनलाई विश्वासमा बलियो बनाइयो र उनले परमेश्वरको प्रशंसा गरे ।
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
21 परमेश्वरले जे कुरा प्रतिज्ञा गर्नुभएको थियो, त्यो उहाँ पुरा गर्न सक्षम पनि हुनुहुन्थ्यो भनी उनी पूर्ण रूपमा विश्वस्त थिए ।
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
22 त्यसकारण, यो उनको निम्ति धार्मिकता गनियो ।
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
23 अब यो केवल उनको भलाइको निम्ति गनिएको थिएन ।
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
24 यो हाम्रो निम्ति पनि लेखिएको थियो, जसको निम्ति यो गनिनेछ, हामी जसले हाम्रा येशू प्रभुलाई मृत्युबाट जीवित पार्नुहुनेमा विश्वास गर्छौं ।
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 यो उहाँ नै हुनुहुन्छ जसलाई हाम्रा अपराधका लागि सुम्पिएको थियो, र हामीलाई धर्मी ठहराउन जीवित पारिएको थियो ।
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
