रोमी 4

1 तब हामी के भनौँ त? हाम्रा पुर्खा अब्राहामले शरीरअनुसार के पाए त?

What then shall we say that Abraham our father has discovered according to the flesh?

2 यदि अब्राहाम कामद्वारा धर्मी ठहरिएका भए, उनले घमण्ड गर्ने कारण हुन्थ्यो, तर परमेश्‍वरको सामु त होइन ।

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before 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 counted to him as righteousness.”

4 अब जसले काम गर्छ, त्यसको ज्यालालाई अनुग्रहको रूपमा गनिँदैन, तर पाउनुपर्ने कुराको रूपमा गनिन्छ ।

Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as something owed to him.

5 तर त्यसको निम्ति जसले काम गर्दैन, तर त्यसको सट्टा अधर्मीलाई धर्मी ठहराउनुहुनेमा विश्‍वास गर्छ, त्यसको विश्‍वासलाई धार्मिकताको रूपमा गनिन्‍छ ।

However, to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

6 दाऊदले पनि कामविना नै परमेश्‍वरले धार्मिकता गान्‍नुभएको मानिसलाई आशिष्‌‌ घोषणा गर्छन् ।

just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the one 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 those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 त्यो मानिस धन्यको हो, जसको विरुद्धमा परमेश्‍वरले पापको लेखा राख्‍नुहुन्‍न ।”

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will never count 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 blessedness then only for the circumcised, or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say, “Faith was counted to Abraham as 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 circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.

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 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,

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 ।

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.

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, or to his offspring, that he would be the 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 has been made void and the promise has been invalidated,

15 किनकि व्यवस्थाले क्रोध ल्याउँछ, तर जहाँ व्यवस्था छैन त्यहाँ अनाज्ञाकारिता हुँदैन ।

because the law brings wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

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 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

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 ।

(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.

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 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.”

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 ।

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.

20 तर परमेश्‍वरको प्रतिज्ञाका कारण, अब्राहाम अविश्‍वासमा रोकिएनन् । बरु, उनलाई विश्‍वासमा बलियो बनाइयो र उनले परमेश्‍वरको प्रशंसा गरे ।

And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God but was strengthened in 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 God was able to do what he had promised.

22 त्यसकारण, यो उनको निम्ति धार्मिकता गनियो ।

Therefore, “it was counted to him as righteousness.”

23 अब यो केवल उनको भलाइको निम्ति गनिएको थिएन ।

Now the statement “it was counted to him” was not written only for Abraham's sake,

24 यो हाम्रो निम्ति पनि लेखिएको थियो, जसको निम्ति यो गनिनेछ, हामी जसले हाम्रा येशू प्रभुलाई मृत्युबाट जीवित पार्नुहुनेमा विश्‍वास गर्छौं ।

but for ours also. It will be counted to us 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 raised for our justification.