Romafoɔ 3
1 Ɛnneɛ na Yudaniyɛ ho mfasoɔ ne sɛn, anaasɛ twetiatwa ho wɔ mfasoɔ bi?
What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?
2 Aane mfasoɔ wɔ so. Deɛ ɛdi ɛkan no, Onyankopɔn de ne nsɛm ahyɛ wɔn nsa.
Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.
3 Na sɛ ebinom nni gyidie ɛ? Gyidie a wɔnni no kyerɛ sɛ Onyankopɔn nyɛ ɔnokwafoɔ anaa?
For what, though some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?
4 Ɛnte saa koraa! Sɛ obiara yɛ ɔtorofoɔ a, Onyankopɔn deɛ, ɔyɛ ɔnokwafoɔ, sɛdeɛ wɔatwerɛ sɛ, “Wodi bem wɔ wo kasa mu na wotene wɔ wʼatemmuo mu.”
God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.
5 Na obi bɛka sɛ, “sɛ yɛn bɔne a yɛyɛ no da Onyankopɔn tenenee adi kann a, adɛn enti na ɛsɛ sɛ Onyankopɔn abufuhyeɛ ba yɛn so?” (Merekasa sɛ onipa)
Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shall we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)
6 Dabi! Sɛ Onyankopɔn nyɛ ɔteneneeni a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na watumi abu ewiase atɛn?
God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?
7 Obi bɛgye akyinnyeɛ aka sɛ, “Sɛ me nkontompo ma Onyankopɔn nokorɛ da adi na nʼanimuonyam boro so a, ɛnneɛ adɛn enti na Onyankopɔn bu me fɔ sɛ ɔdebɔneyɛfoɔ?”
For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
8 Ebinom nso bɛka sɛ, “Ɛnneɛ momma yɛnyɛ bɔne sɛdeɛ biribi pa bɛfiri mu aba!” Nnipa bi mpo ka sɛ saa asɛm yi na yɛka. Onyankopɔn bɛbu wɔn atɛn.
And (as we are blamed, and as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.
9 Ɛnneɛ, ɛdeɛn na yɛnka? Yɛn Yudafoɔ yɛ nnipa sene amanamanmufoɔ no anaa? Ɛnte saa! Makyerɛ mu dada sɛ Yudafoɔ ne amanamanmufoɔ nyinaa yɛ pɛ wɔ bɔne tumi ase.
What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,
10 Sɛdeɛ Atwerɛsɛm no ka sɛ, “Obiara nyɛ ɔteneneeni;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
11 obiara nyɛ ɔbadwemma; na obiara nni hɔ a ɔhwehwɛ Onyankopɔn akyiri kwan.
There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
12 Nnipa nyinaa atwe wɔn ho afiri Onyankopɔn ho; wɔn nyinaa ayɛ bɔne. Obiara nni hɔ a ɔyɛ papa. Ɔbaako mpo nni hɔ.”
They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
13 “Wɔn anom te sɛ damena a abue; na wɔn tɛkrɛma ka atorɔsɛm.” “Wɔn anofafa ka nsɛm a ɛte sɛ ɔwɔ ano borɔ.”
Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
14 “Nnome a ɛyɛ hu na ɛfiri wɔn anom ba.”
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
15 “Wɔnkyɛre opira ne awudie ho;
Their feete are swift to shead blood.
16 baabiara a wɔbɛkɔ no, wɔsɛe hɔ pasaa,
Destruction and calamity are in their waies,
17 na wɔnnim asomdwoeɛ kwan.”
And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.
18 “Na wɔnnsuro Onyankopɔn.”
The feare of God is not before their eies.
19 Yɛnim sɛ biribiara a ɛwɔ Mmara no mu no, wɔtwerɛ maa wɔn a wɔhyɛ Mmara no tumi ase. Mmara no ka yeinom sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a obiara rennya anoyie, na ama Onyankopɔn akyerɛ sɛ ewiase nyinaa di fɔ.
Now we know that whatsoeuer ye Lawe saieth, it saieth it to them which are vnder ye Law, that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world be subiect to the iudgement of God.
20 Ɛfiri sɛ, obiara nni hɔ a sɛ ɔyɛ deɛ Mmara no hyɛ sɛ ɔnyɛ a, Onyankopɔn bɛbu no bem. Deɛ Mmara no yɛ ara ne sɛ, ɛma onipa hunu sɛ wayɛ bɔne.
Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.
21 Wɔada teneneeyɛ a ɛfiri Onyankopɔn, na ɛmfiri mmara no adi. Ɛno na Mmara no ne Adiyifoɔ no di ho adanseɛ.
But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,
22 Saa teneneeyɛ a ɛfiri Onyankopɔn yi nam gyidie a yɛwɔ wɔ Yesu Kristo mu. Ɛwɔ hɔ ma agyidifoɔ nyinaa. Nsonsonoeɛ biara nni mu.
To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue.
23 Na nnipa nyinaa ayɛ bɔne ama Onyankopɔn animuonyam abɔ wɔn,
For there is no difference: for all haue sinned, and are depriued of the glorie of God,
24 nanso ɔnam Kristo adom nkwagyeɛ no so abu wɔn nyinaa bem kwa.
And are iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus,
25 Onyankopɔn somaa Kristo sɛ ɔmfa ne ho mmɛbɔ afɔdeɛ mma yɛn. Kristo de ne mogya maaeɛ, sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, gyidie a yɛbɛnya wɔ ne mu enti wɔbɛgye yɛn. Saa afɔdeɛ yi ma yɛhunu sɛ, mmerɛ a atwa mu no, Onyankopɔn nam boasetɔ ne adom so de bɔne kyɛeɛ.
Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed,
26 Ɛfiri sɛ na Onyankopɔn rehwɛ ɛkwan na ɔde wɔn abɛka deɛ ɔreyɛ saa ɛberɛ yi no ho. Onyankopɔn yɛɛ yei de kyerɛɛ ne tenenee, ɛfiri sɛ ɔno ankasa nyɛ nyiyimu, na ɔbu atɛntenenee nso, na sɛ nnebɔneyɛfoɔ gye Yesu di a, ɔbu wɔn sɛ wɔtene wɔ nʼani so.
Through the patience of God, to shewe at this time his righteousnesse, that hee might be iust, and a iustifier of him which is of the faith of Iesus.
27 Ɛnneɛ ɛdeɛn na yɛde bɛhoahoa yɛn ho? Biribiara nni hɔ! Na adɛn nti? Mmara no a yɛdi so no enti na wagye yɛn anaa? Dabi. Gye a ɔgye yɛn no nnyina mmara a yɛdi so, na mmom, ɛgyina gyidie a yɛwɔ wɔ Yesu mu.
Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.
28 Ne tiawatwa ne sɛ, wɔnam gyidie so na wɔbu onipa bem, na ɛnyɛ Mmara a ɔdi so no enti.
Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.
29 Onyankopɔn yɛ Yudafoɔ nko ara Onyankopɔn anaa? Ɔnyɛ amanamanmufoɔ nso Onyankopɔn bi anaa? Ɛyɛ nokorɛ turodoo sɛ ɔyɛ amanamanmufoɔ nso Onyankopɔn.
God, is he the God of the Iewes onely, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.
30 Onyankopɔn yɛ baako, na ɔnam gyidie nko ara a Yudafoɔ wɔ so bɛbu wɔn bem. Na saa ara nso na ɔnam gyidie nko ara so bɛbu amanamanmufoɔ bem.
For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.
31 Enti, yei kyerɛ sɛ, ɛsɛ sɛ yɛfa saa gyidie no so gyae Mmara no so di anaa? Dabi, na mmom, sɛ yɛwɔ gyidie a, yɛfoa Mmara no adanseɛ so.
Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.
