Roomaa 3
1 Egaa Yihuudii taʼuun faayidaa maalii qaba? Yookaan buʼaan dhagna qabaa maalii?
How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?
2 Karaa hundaanuu buʼaa guddaa qaba! Jalqabatti dubbiin Waaqaa Yihuudootatti imaanaa kenname.
Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
3 Isaan keessaa tokko tokko yoo hin amanin maal ree? Amantii dhabuun isaanii amanamummaa Waaqaa ni balleessaa?
And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?
4 Gonkumaa hin taʼu! Namoonni hundinuu sobdoota, Waaqni immoo dhugaa qabeessa haa taʼu. Kunis akkuma, “Akka ati dubbii keetiin dhuga qabeessa taatuuf, yommuu murtiitti dhiʼaattuttis akka moʼattuuf” jedhamee barreeffamee dha.
In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
5 Yoo jalʼinni keenya qajeelina Waaqaa ifa baase garuu maal jenna ree? Waaqni dheekkamsa isaa nutti fiduun isaa qajeelina dhabeetii? Kanas ani akka namaattin dubbadha.
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
6 Gonkumaa hin taʼu! Utuu akkas taʼee silaa Waaqni akkamitti addunyaatti muruu dandaʼa ree?
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
7 Namni tokko, “Yoo soba kootiin dhuga qabeessummaan Waaqaa guddatee ulfinni isaas baayʼate maaliif hamma ammaatti akka cubbamaa tokkootti natti murama ree?” jedhee falma taʼa.
But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
8 Kunis isa namoonni tokko tokko, “Isaan, ‘Akka wanni gaariin dhufuuf hammina haa hojjennu?’ jedhu” jedhanii nurratti odeessisanii dha. Murtiin isaanitti muramus waanuma maluu dha!
Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
9 Egaa maal jenna ree? Nu Yihuudoonni warra kaan caallaa? Gonkumaa akkas miti! Akka Yihuudoonnii fi Giriikonni hundinuu cubbuu jala jiran duraan dursinee mirkaneessineerraatii.
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
10 Kunis kan akkana jedhamee barreeffamee dha: “Qajeelaan tokko iyyuu hin jiru; namni tokko iyyuu;
As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
11 namni hubannaa qabu, kan Waaqa barbaadu tokko iyyuu hin jiru.
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
12 Hundinuu dogoggoraniiru; walumatti warra faayidaa hin qabne taʼaniiru; namni waan gaarii hojjetu tokko iyyuu hin jiru; tokkumti iyyuu hin jiru.”
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
13 “Laagaan isaanii awwaala banamaa dha; arraba isaaniitiin ni gowwoomsu.” “Hadhaan buutii hidhii isaanii jala jira.”
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
14 “Afaan isaanii abaarsaa fi hadhaaʼummaan guutame.”
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
15 “Miilli isaanii dhiiga dhangalaasuutti ariifata;
Their feet are quick in running after blood;
16 badiisaa fi gadadootu karaa isaanii irra jira;
Destruction and trouble are in their ways;
17 karaa nagaas hin beekan.”
And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
18 “Waaqa sodaachuun ija isaanii dura hin jiru.”
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Akka afaan hundi cufamuu fi akka addunyaan hundinuu murtii Waaqaa jala galuuf, wanni seerri jedhu hundinuu akka warra seera jala jiraniif dubbatu ni beekna.
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
20 Kanaafis eenyu iyyuu seera eeguudhaan fuula Waaqaa duratti qajeelaa hin taʼu; seeratu cubbuu nu hubachiisaatii.
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
21 Amma garuu qajeelummaan Waaqaan kennamu kan seeraan adda taʼe, kan Seerrii fi Raajonni dhugaa baʼaniif mulʼateera.
But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;
22 Qajeelummaan Waaqaa kun amantiidhaan warra Yesuus Kiristoositti amanan hundaaf kennama; nama wal caalchisuun hin jiru;
That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
23 sababii hundi isaanii iyyuu cubbuu hojjetaniif isaan ulfina Waaqaa irraa citaniiruutii;
For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
24 isaanis ayyaana Waaqaa isa furama karaa Kiristoos Yesuusiin toluma kennameefiin qajeeltota taasifamaniiru.
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
25 Dhiiga isaatti amantii qabaachuudhaanis akka inni aarsaa araaraa taʼuuf Waaqni isa dhiʼeesse. Waan kana gochuun isaas cubbuu kanaan dura hojjetame utuu hin adabin waan obsaan bira darbeef qajeelina isaa argisiisuuf jedhee ti;
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
26 Waaqni yeroo ammaa qajeelummaa isaa argisiisuu fi akka nama Yesuusitti amanus qajeelaa taʼuu isaa labsuuf waan kana godhe.
And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
27 Yoos of tuuluun eessa jira ree? Inni hafeera. Seera kamiin? Seera eeguudhaan moo? Miti; seera amantiitiin malee.
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
28 Nu akka namni seera eeguudhaan utuu hin taʼin amantiidhaan qajeelaa taasifamu ni amannaatii.
For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.
29 Waaqni Waaqa Yihuudootaa qofa moo? Inni Waaqa Namoota Ormaas mitii? Eeyyee, inni Waaqa Namoota Ormaatis;
Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:
30 egaa kan dhagna qabates amantiin, kan dhagna hin qabatinis amantiidhuma sanaan qajeelaa kan taasisu Waaquma tokkicha.
If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.
31 Yoos nu amantii kanaan seera sana cabsinaa ree? Gonkumaa akkas miti! Seericha ni cimsina malee.
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
