ရောမိဏး 4
1 အသ္မာကံ ပူရွွပုရုၐ ဣဗြာဟီမ် ကာယိကကြိယယာ ကိံ လဗ္ဓဝါန် ဧတဒဓိ ကိံ ဝဒိၐျာမး?
What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?
2 သ ယဒိ နိဇကြိယာဘျး သပုဏျော ဘဝေတ် တရှိ တသျာတ္မၑ္လာဃာံ ကရ္တ္တုံ ပန္ထာ ဘဝေဒိတိ သတျံ, ကိန္တွီၑွရသျ သမီပေ နဟိ၊
If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God.
3 ၑာသ္တြေ ကိံ လိခတိ? ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဤၑွရေ ဝိၑွသနာတ် သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တသ္မဲ ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏိတော ဗဘူဝ၊
For what are the words of scripture? ‘Abraham had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.’
4 ကရ္မ္မကာရိဏော ယဒ် ဝေတနံ တဒ် အနုဂြဟသျ ဖလံ နဟိ ကိန္တု တေနောပါရ္ဇိတံ မန္တဝျမ်၊
Now wages are regarded as due to the person who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;
5 ကိန္တု ယး ပါပိနံ သပုဏျီကရောတိ တသ္မိန် ဝိၑွာသိနး ကရ္မ္မဟီနသျ ဇနသျ ယော ဝိၑွာသး သ ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏျော ဘဝတိ၊
while, as for the person who does not rely on their obedience, but has faith in him who can pronounce the godless righteous, their faith is regarded by God as righteousness.
6 အပရံ ယံ ကြိယာဟီနမ် ဤၑွရး သပုဏျီကရောတိ တသျ ဓနျဝါဒံ ဒါယူဒ် ဝရ္ဏယာမာသ, ယထာ,
In precisely the same way David speaks of the blessing pronounced on the person who is regarded by God as righteous apart from actions –
7 သ ဓနျော'ဃာနိ မၖၐ္ဋာနိ ယသျာဂါံသျာဝၖတာနိ စ၊
‘Blessed are those whose wrongdoings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!
8 သ စ ဓနျး ပရေၑေန ပါပံ ယသျ န ဂဏျတေ၊
Blessed the man whom the Lord will never regard as sinful!’
9 ဧၐ ဓနျဝါဒသ္တွက္ဆေဒိနမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိနံ ဝါ ကံ ပြတိ ဘဝတိ? ဣဗြာဟီမော ဝိၑွာသး ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏိတ ဣတိ ဝယံ ဝဒါမး၊
Is this blessing, then, pronounced on the circumcised only or on the uncircumcised as well? We say that – ‘Abraham’s faith was regarded by God as righteousness.’
10 သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တသျ တွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ ကိမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ ကသ္မိန် သမယေ ပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏိတး? တွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ နဟိ ကိန္တွတွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ၊
Under what circumstances, then, did this take place? After his circumcision or before it?
11 အပရဉ္စ သ ယတ် သရွွေၐာမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိနာံ ဝိၑွာသိနာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐော ဘဝေတ်, တေ စ ပုဏျဝတ္တွေန ဂဏျေရန်;
Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision – to show the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man – in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, so that they also may be regarded by God as righteous;
12 ယေ စ လောကား ကေဝလံ ဆိန္နတွစော န သန္တော 'သ္မတ္ပူရွွပုရုၐ ဣဗြာဟီမ် အဆိန္နတွက် သန် ယေန ဝိၑွာသမာရ္ဂေဏ ဂတဝါန် တေနဲဝ တသျ ပါဒစိဟ္နေန ဂစ္ဆန္တိ တေၐာံ တွက္ဆေဒိနာမပျာဒိပုရုၐော ဘဝေတ် တဒရ္ထမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိနော မာနဝသျ ဝိၑွာသာတ် ပုဏျမ် ဥတ္ပဒျတ ဣတိ ပြမာဏသွရူပံ တွက္ဆေဒစိဟ္နံ သ ပြာပ္နောတ်၊
as well as father of the circumcised – to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.
13 ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဇဂတော'ဓိကာရီ ဘဝိၐျတိ ယဲၐာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာ တံ တသျ ဝံၑဉ္စ ပြတိ ပူရွွမ် အကြိယတ သာ ဝျဝသ္ထာမူလိကာ နဟိ ကိန္တု ဝိၑွာသဇနျပုဏျမူလိကာ၊
For the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through Law, but through the righteousness due to faith.
14 ယတော ဝျဝသ္ထာဝလမ္ဗိနော ယဒျဓိကာရိဏော ဘဝန္တိ တရှိ ဝိၑွာသော ဝိဖလော ဇာယတေ သာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာပိ လုပ္တဲဝ၊
If those who take their stand on Law are to inherit the world, then faith is robbed of its meaning and the promise comes to nothing!
15 အဓိကန္တု ဝျဝသ္ထာ ကောပံ ဇနယတိ ယတော 'ဝိဒျမာနာယာံ ဝျဝသ္ထာယာမ် အာဇ္ဉာလင်္ဃနံ န သမ္ဘဝတိ၊
Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.
16 အတဧဝ သာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာ ယဒ် အနုဂြဟသျ ဖလံ ဘဝေတ် တဒရ္ထံ ဝိၑွာသမူလိကာ ယတသ္တထာတွေ တဒွံၑသမုဒါယံ ပြတိ အရ္ထတော ယေ ဝျဝသ္ထယာ တဒွံၑသမ္ဘဝါး ကေဝလံ တာန် ပြတိ နဟိ ကိန္တု ယ ဣဗြာဟီမီယဝိၑွာသေန တတ္သမ္ဘဝါသ္တာနပိ ပြတိ သာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာ သ္ထာသ္နုရ္ဘဝတိ၊
That is why everything is made to depend on faith: so that everything may be God’s gift, and in order that the fulfillment of the promise may be made certain for all Abraham’s descendants – not only for those who take their stand on the Law, but also for those who take their stand on the faith of Abraham. (He is the father of us all;
17 ယော နိရ္ဇီဝါန် သဇီဝါန် အဝိဒျမာနာနိ ဝသ္တူနိ စ ဝိဒျမာနာနိ ကရောတိ ဣဗြာဟီမော ဝိၑွာသဘူမေသ္တသျေၑွရသျ သာက္ၐာတ် သော'သ္မာကံ သရွွေၐာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐ အာသ္တေ, ယထာ လိခိတံ ဝိဒျတေ, အဟံ တွာံ ဗဟုဇာတီနာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐံ ကၖတွာ နိယုက္တဝါန်၊
as scripture says – ‘I have made you the father of many nations.’) And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.
18 တွဒီယသ္တာဒၖၑော ဝံၑော ဇနိၐျတေ ယဒိဒံ ဝါကျံ ပြတိၑြုတံ တဒနုသာရာဒ် ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဗဟုဒေၑီယလောကာနာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐော ယဒ် ဘဝတိ တဒရ္ထံ သော'နပေက္ၐိတဝျမပျပေက္ၐမာဏော ဝိၑွာသံ ကၖတဝါန်၊
With no ground for hope, Abraham, sustained by hope, put faith in God; in order that, in fulfillment of the words – ‘So many will your descendants be,’ he might become ‘the father of many nations.’
19 အပရဉ္စ က္ၐီဏဝိၑွာသော န ဘူတွာ ၑတဝတ္သရဝယသ္ကတွာတ် သွၑရီရသျ ဇရာံ သာရာနာမ္နး သွဘာရျျာယာ ရဇောနိဝၖတ္တိဉ္စ တၖဏာယ န မေနေ၊
Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.
20 အပရမ် အဝိၑွာသာဒ် ဤၑွရသျ ပြတိဇ္ဉာဝစနေ ကမပိ သံၑယံ န စကာရ;
He was not led by want of faith to doubt God’s promise.
21 ကိန္တွီၑွရေဏ ယတ် ပြတိၑြုတံ တတ် သာဓယိတုံ ၑကျတ ဣတိ နိၑ္စိတံ ဝိဇ္ဉာယ ဒၖဎဝိၑွာသး သန် ဤၑွရသျ မဟိမာနံ ပြကာၑယာဉ္စကာရ၊
On the contrary, his faith gave him strength; and he praised God, in the firm conviction that what God has promised he is also able to carry out.
22 ဣတိ ဟေတောသ္တသျ သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တဒီယပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏယာဉ္စကြေ၊
And therefore his faith ‘was regarded as righteousness.’
23 ပုဏျမိဝါဂဏျတ တတ် ကေဝလသျ တသျ နိမိတ္တံ လိခိတံ နဟိ, အသ္မာကံ နိမိတ္တမပိ,
Now these words – ‘it was regarded as righteousness’ – were not written with reference to Abraham only;
24 ယတော'သ္မာကံ ပါပနာၑာရ္ထံ သမရ္ပိတော'သ္မာကံ ပုဏျပြာပ္တျရ္ထဉ္စောတ္ထာပိတော'ဘဝတ် ယော'သ္မာကံ ပြဘု ရျီၑုသ္တသျောတ္ထာပယိတရီၑွရေ
but also with reference to us. Our faith, too, will be regarded by God in the same light, if we have faith in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead;
25 ယဒိ ဝယံ ဝိၑွသာမသ္တရှျသ္မာကမပိ သဧဝ ဝိၑွာသး ပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏယိၐျတေ၊
for Jesus was given up to death to atone for our offenses, and was raised to life that we might be pronounced righteous.
