ရောမိဏး 4
1 အသ္မာကံ ပူရွွပုရုၐ ဣဗြာဟီမ် ကာယိကကြိယယာ ကိံ လဗ္ဓဝါန် ဧတဒဓိ ကိံ ဝဒိၐျာမး?
Abraham is the [revered] ancestor of us [Jews]. So think about what we can conclude [from what happened to Abraham about how God can erase the record of our sins]. [RHQ]
2 သ ယဒိ နိဇကြိယာဘျး သပုဏျော ဘဝေတ် တရှိ တသျာတ္မၑ္လာဃာံ ကရ္တ္တုံ ပန္ထာ ဘဝေဒိတိ သတျံ, ကိန္တွီၑွရသျ သမီပေ နဟိ၊
If it was because of Abraham’s doing [good] things that the record of his sins was erased {that [God] erased the record of his sins}, Abraham could then have been able to boast [about that to people], but he would not have [had any basis to] boast to God [about it].
3 ၑာသ္တြေ ကိံ လိခတိ? ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဤၑွရေ ဝိၑွသနာတ် သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တသ္မဲ ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏိတော ဗဘူဝ၊
[Remember that] in the Scriptures it is written {someone wrote} [PRS] that Abraham believed what God [promised] [RHQ], and as a result the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}.
4 ကရ္မ္မကာရိဏော ယဒ် ဝေတနံ တဒ် အနုဂြဟသျ ဖလံ နဟိ ကိန္တု တေနောပါရ္ဇိတံ မန္တဝျမ်၊
If we receive wages for work that we do, those wages are not considered to be a gift. Instead, they [are considered] to be what we have earned. [Similarly, if God erases the record of our sins because we did things to earn God’s favor], we would not consider that [God’s erasing the record of our sin] was [a gift. Instead, we would consider it as what we had earned].
5 ကိန္တု ယး ပါပိနံ သပုဏျီကရောတိ တသ္မိန် ဝိၑွာသိနး ကရ္မ္မဟီနသျ ဇနသျ ယော ဝိၑွာသး သ ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏျော ဘဝတိ၊
But suppose that we do not do things [to gain God’s acceptance]. Suppose that we instead trust [in God], who erases the record of sins of wicked people. Then the erasing of the record of our sins because of our trusting [in Christ] is considered to be a gift to us, [not something that we earned].
6 အပရံ ယံ ကြိယာဟီနမ် ဤၑွရး သပုဏျီကရောတိ တသျ ဓနျဝါဒံ ဒါယူဒ် ဝရ္ဏယာမာသ, ယထာ,
Similarly, it is as David wrote [in the Psalms] about people being happy whose record of sins God has erased even though they have not done things [to earn it. David wrote]:
7 သ ဓနျော'ဃာနိ မၖၐ္ဋာနိ ယသျာဂါံသျာဝၖတာနိ စ၊
[God] is pleased with people whose sins have been {whose sins [he] has} forgiven, and whose sins he [has decided] to forget [DOU].
8 သ စ ဓနျး ပရေၑေန ပါပံ ယသျ န ဂဏျတေ၊
[God] causes to be happy the people whose sins he no longer keeps a record of.
9 ဧၐ ဓနျဝါဒသ္တွက္ဆေဒိနမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိနံ ဝါ ကံ ပြတိ ဘဝတိ? ဣဗြာဟီမော ဝိၑွာသး ပုဏျာရ္ထံ ဂဏိတ ဣတိ ဝယံ ဝဒါမး၊
As for our being happy [because God has erased the record of our sins], (it is not something that [only] we Jews [can experience]./is it [MTY] something that [only] we Jews [can experience]?) [RHQ] [No, it is] also something that non-Jews [can experience] [MTY]. [What is written in the Scriptures], that it was because Abraham trusted [in God] that the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}, [also shows that this is true].
10 သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တသျ တွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ ကိမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ ကသ္မိန် သမယေ ပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏိတး? တွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ နဟိ ကိန္တွတွက္ဆေဒိတွာဝသ္ထာယာံ၊
([Think about] when [God erased the record of Abraham’s sins]./When did [God erase the record of Abraham’s sins]?) [RHQ] (Consider whether [it happened] after someone circumcised [Abraham to mark him as one who belonged to God], or before someone circumcised him./[Did it happen] after [Abraham was] circumcised [to be marked as one who belonged to God], or before he was circumcised?) [RHQ] It happened before he was circumcised, not after he was circumcised.
11 အပရဉ္စ သ ယတ် သရွွေၐာမ် အတွက္ဆေဒိနာံ ဝိၑွာသိနာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐော ဘဝေတ်, တေ စ ပုဏျဝတ္တွေန ဂဏျေရန်;
[Many years later, God commanded that] Abraham [be] circumcised. Abraham’s accepting that ritual simply showed [that he knew that God had accepted him]. [He knew that God] had [erased the record of his sins] because he trusted [in God] while he was still, [in effect, a non-Jew because] he had not been circumcised. [So we can understand that] Abraham became (a spiritual ancestor/like an ancestor) to [all] of us whose record of sins has been erased {whose sins [God] has erased the record of} because we believe [in God’s promise, even though some of us] are not circumcised.
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၊
Likewise, Abraham is the [spiritual] ancestor of all us Jews who are not merely circumcised but who, more importantly, [believe in God’s promise] as our ancestor Abraham did, even before he was circumcised.
13 ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဇဂတော'ဓိကာရီ ဘဝိၐျတိ ယဲၐာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာ တံ တသျ ဝံၑဉ္စ ပြတိ ပူရွွမ် အကြိယတ သာ ဝျဝသ္ထာမူလိကာ နဟိ ကိန္တု ဝိၑွာသဇနျပုဏျမူလိကာ၊
God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would receive [the blessings that he promised to give to the people in] the world. But when he promised that, it was not because Abraham [obeyed] the laws [that God later gave to Moses]. Instead, it was because Abraham believed [that God would do what he promised that he would do]. As a result, God erased the record of his sins.
14 ယတော ဝျဝသ္ထာဝလမ္ဗိနော ယဒျဓိကာရိဏော ဘဝန္တိ တရှိ ဝိၑွာသော ဝိဖလော ဇာယတေ သာ ပြတိဇ္ဉာပိ လုပ္တဲဝ၊
If [we think that] it is those who [obey God’s] laws who will receive [what he has promised], it is useless [for us to trust in him. And what he] promised is worthless. [Remember that] it is [stated] in God’s law [PRS] [that] he will punish [people who do not perfectly obey them], and remember that wherever [MTY] laws exist, [people] disobey them [LIT].
15 အဓိကန္တု ဝျဝသ္ထာ ကောပံ ဇနယတိ ယတော 'ဝိဒျမာနာယာံ ဝျဝသ္ထာယာမ် အာဇ္ဉာလင်္ဃနံ န သမ္ဘဝတိ၊
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၊
So it is because [we] trust [in God that we will receive the things that he has promised]. [It is not because we perfectly obey God’s laws. He wants] (to [erase the record of our sins/to declare us no longer guilty]) without our earning it. As a result, what God now promises, he guarantees to give to all people who are [Abraham’s spiritual] descendants. [He promises to do that not only for us Jewish believers], who [have] God’s laws [and trust in him as Abraham did], but also for those [non-Jews who do not have God’s laws but] who trust [in him] as Abraham did. Abraham is the [spiritual] ancestor of all of us [believers].
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၊
What is written {What [Moses] wrote} [in the Scriptures about what God promised Abraham shows that this is true]. [God said to him], “It is in order that you [(sg)] may be the ancestor of many ethnic groups that I have chosen you.” Romans 4:17b-22 God [guaranteed that he would give Abraham many descendants]. Abraham confidently believed that God [would do that],
18 တွဒီယသ္တာဒၖၑော ဝံၑော ဇနိၐျတေ ယဒိဒံ ဝါကျံ ပြတိၑြုတံ တဒနုသာရာဒ် ဣဗြာဟီမ် ဗဟုဒေၑီယလောကာနာမ် အာဒိပုရုၐော ယဒ် ဘဝတိ တဒရ္ထံ သော'နပေက္ၐိတဝျမပျပေက္ၐမာဏော ဝိၑွာသံ ကၖတဝါန်၊
even though there was no physical reason for him to hope [that he would have descendants, because he and his wife were too old to bear children]. But God is the one who causes dead people to live again, and who talks about things that do not yet exist as already existing. [God said to Abraham], “You will have so many descendants that they will be [as impossible to count as the stars].” And Abraham believed that, and he believed that he would become the ancestor of many ethnic groups.
19 အပရဉ္စ က္ၐီဏဝိၑွာသော န ဘူတွာ ၑတဝတ္သရဝယသ္ကတွာတ် သွၑရီရသျ ဇရာံ သာရာနာမ္နး သွဘာရျျာယာ ရဇောနိဝၖတ္တိဉ္စ တၖဏာယ န မေနေ၊
He did not doubt [that God would do what he promised], even though he knew that his body was already [as incapable of begetting children as if he were] dead [MET] because he was about 100 years old. And [even though he realized that] Sarah had never been able to become pregnant [IDM],
20 အပရမ် အဝိၑွာသာဒ် ဤၑွရသျ ပြတိဇ္ဉာဝစနေ ကမပိ သံၑယံ န စကာရ;
he did not doubt at all that God [would do what he had] promised. Instead, he trusted [in God] more/very strongly, and he thanked God [for what God was going to do].
21 ကိန္တွီၑွရေဏ ယတ် ပြတိၑြုတံ တတ် သာဓယိတုံ ၑကျတ ဣတိ နိၑ္စိတံ ဝိဇ္ဉာယ ဒၖဎဝိၑွာသး သန် ဤၑွရသျ မဟိမာနံ ပြကာၑယာဉ္စကာရ၊
He was also convinced {very sure} that the thing that God promised, God was able to do.
22 ဣတိ ဟေတောသ္တသျ သ ဝိၑွာသသ္တဒီယပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏယာဉ္စကြေ၊
And that is the reason that the record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins}.
23 ပုဏျမိဝါဂဏျတ တတ် ကေဝလသျ တသျ နိမိတ္တံ လိခိတံ နဟိ, အသ္မာကံ နိမိတ္တမပိ,
The words [in the Scriptures], “The record of his sins was erased {[God] erased the record of his sins},” are not only about Abraham.
24 ယတော'သ္မာကံ ပါပနာၑာရ္ထံ သမရ္ပိတော'သ္မာကံ ပုဏျပြာပ္တျရ္ထဉ္စောတ္ထာပိတော'ဘဝတ် ယော'သ္မာကံ ပြဘု ရျီၑုသ္တသျောတ္ထာပယိတရီၑွရေ
They were also written {[They] also wrote that} for us whose record of sins would be erased {[God] would erase}. They were written {[They] wrote it} for us who believe [God], the one who caused our Lord Jesus to become alive again after he died.
25 ယဒိ ဝယံ ဝိၑွသာမသ္တရှျသ္မာကမပိ သဧဝ ဝိၑွာသး ပုဏျမိဝ ဂဏယိၐျတေ၊
Jesus allowed [men] to execute [MTY] him so that [God could forgive] our evil deeds. And [God] caused Jesus to live again because [God wanted to show that because of the death of Jesus he was able to] erase the record of our sins.
