Lettera ai Romani (رومية) 4

SMITH VAN DYKE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 فماذا نقول ان ابانا ابراهيم قد وجد حسب الجسد.	1 Then what do we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are descended physical y?
2 لانه ان كان ابراهيم قد تبرر بالاعمال فله فخر. ولكن ليس لدى الله.	2 If Abraham had been justified because of what he had done, then he would have had something toboast about. But not before God:
3 لانه ماذا يقول الكتاب. فآمن ابراهيم بالله فحسب له برا.	3 does not scripture say: Abraham put his faith in God and this was reckoned to him as uprightness?
4 اما الذي يعمل فلا تحسب له الاجرة على سبيل نعمة بل على سبيل دين.	4 Now, when someone works, the wages for this are not considered as a favour but as due;
5 واما الذي لا يعمل ولكن يؤمن بالذي يبرر الفاجر فايمانه يحسب له برا.	5 however, when someone, without working, puts faith in the one who justifies the godless, it is this faiththat is reckoned as uprightness.
6 كما يقول داود ايضا في تطويب الانسان الذي يحسب له الله برا بدون اعمال.	6 David, too, says the same: he cal s someone blessed if God attributes uprightness to that person,apart from any action undertaken:
7 طوبى للذين غفرت آثامهم وسترت خطاياهم.	7 How blessed are those whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is blotted out.
8 طوبى للرجل الذي لا يحسب له الرب خطية.	8 How blessed are those to whom the Lord imputes no guilt.
9 أفهذا التطويب هو على الختان فقط ام على الغرلة ايضا. لاننا نقول انه حسب لابراهيم الايمان برا.	9 Is this blessing only for the circumcised, or is it said of the uncircumcised as wel ? Wel , we said ofAbraham that his faith was reckoned to him as uprightness.
10 فكيف حسب. أوهو في الختان ام في الغرلة. ليس في الختان بل في الغرلة.	10 Now how did this come about? When he was already circumcised, or before he had beencircumcised? Not when he had been circumcised, but while he was still uncircumcised;
11 واخذ علامة الختان ختما لبر الايمان الذي كان في الغرلة ليكون ابا لجميع الذين يؤمنون وهم في الغرلة كي يحسب لهم ايضا البر.	11 and circumcision was given to him later, as a sign and a guarantee that the faith which he had whilestill uncircumcised was reckoned to him as uprightness. In this way, Abraham was to be the ancestor of albelievers who are uncircumcised, so that they might be reckoned as upright;
12 وابا للختان للذين ليسوا من الختان فقط بل ايضا يسلكون في خطوات ايمان ابينا ابراهيم الذي كان وهو في الغرلة.	12 as well as the ancestor of those of the circumcision who not only have their circumcision but who alsofol ow our ancestor Abraham along the path of faith that he trod before he was circumcised.
13 فانه ليس بالناموس كان الوعد لابراهيم او لنسله ان يكون وارثا للعالم بل ببر الايمان.	13 For the promise to Abraham and his descendants that he should inherit the world was not through theLaw, but through the uprightness of faith.
14 لانه ان كان الذين من الناموس هم ورثة فقد تعطل الايمان وبطل الوعد.	14 For if it is those who live by the Law who wil gain the inheritance, faith is worthless and the promise iswithout force;
15 لان الناموس ينشئ غضبا اذ حيث ليس ناموس ليس ايضا تعدّ.	15 for the Law produces nothing but God's retribution, and it is only where there is no Law that it ispossible to live without breaking the Law.
16 لهذا هو من الايمان كي يكون على سبيل النعمة ليكون الوعد وطيدا لجميع النسل ليس لمن هو من الناموس فقط بل ايضا لمن هو من ايمان ابراهيم الذي هو اب لجميعنا.	16 That is why the promise is to faith, so that it comes as a free gift and is secure for al thedescendants, not only those who rely on the Law but al those others who rely on the faith of Abraham, theancestor of us all
17 كما هو مكتوب اني قد جعلتك ابا لامم كثيرة. امام الله الذي آمن به الذي يحيي الموتى ويدعو الاشياء غير الموجودة كانها موجودة.	17 (as scripture says: I have made you the father of many nations). Abraham is our father in the eyes ofGod, in whom he put his faith, and who brings the dead to life and cal s into existence what does not yet exist.
18 فهو على خلاف الرجاء آمن على الرجاء لكي يصير ابا لامم كثيرة كما قيل هكذا يكون نسلك.	18 Though there seemed no hope, he hoped and believed that he was to become father of many nationsin fulfilment of the promise: Just so wil your descendants be.
19 واذ لم يكن ضعيفا في الايمان لم يعتبر جسده وهو قد صار مماتا اذ كان ابن نحو مئة سنة ولا مماتية مستودع سارة.	19 Even the thought that his body was as good as dead -- he was about a hundred years old -- and thatSarah's womb was dead too did not shake his faith.
20 ولا بعدم ايمان ارتاب في وعد الله بل تقوّى بالايمان معطيا مجدا للّه.	20 Counting on the promise of God, he did not doubt or disbelieve, but drew strength from faith and gaveglory to God,
21 وتيقن ان ما وعد به هو قادر ان يفعله ايضا.	21 ful y convinced that whatever God promised he has the power to perform.
22 لذلك ايضا حسب له برا.	22 This is the faith that was reckoned to him as uprightness.
23 ولكن لم يكتب من اجله وحده انه حسب له	23 And the word 'reckoned' in scripture applies not only to him;
24 بل من اجلنا نحن ايضا الذين سيحسب لنا الذين نؤمن بمن اقام يسوع ربنا من الاموات.	24 it is there for our sake too -- our faith, too, wil be 'reckoned'
25 الذي أسلم من اجل خطايانا وأقيم لاجل تبريرنا	25 because we believe in him who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus who was handed over to deathfor our sins and raised to life for our justification.