¹亚伯拉罕因信称义

¹What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

²亚伯拉罕若是因行为称义，就有可夸的，只是不能在　神面前夸口。

²for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast — but not before god;

³经上怎么样说呢？”亚伯拉罕信　神，这就算为他的义。”

³for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him — to righteousness;`

⁴作工的得工资，不算是恩典，是他应得的。

⁴and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;

⁵可是，那不作工而只信那称不敬虔的人为义的　神的，他的信就算为义了。

⁵and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned — to righteousness:

⁶大卫也是这样说，那不靠行为而蒙　神算为义的人是有福的！

⁶even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

⁷“过犯得蒙赦免，罪恶得到遮盖的人，是有福的；

⁷`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

⁸主不算为有罪的，这人是有福的。”

⁸happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.`

⁹这样看来，那有福的人，是指受割礼的呢，还是指没有受割礼的呢？因为我们说：“亚伯拉罕的信算为他的义。”

⁹[Is] this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision — for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham — to righteousness?

¹⁰那么，是怎样算的呢？是在他受割礼以后呢，还是在他受割礼之前呢？不是在他受割礼以后，而是在他受了割礼以前。

¹⁰how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

¹¹他领受了割礼为记号，作他受割礼之前因信称义的印证，使他作所有没有受割礼而信之人的父，使他们也被算为义；

¹¹and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

¹²又作受割礼之人的父，就是作那些不仅受割礼，并且照着我们祖宗亚伯拉罕未受割礼时就信的那脚踪而行之人的父。

¹²and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that [is] in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

¹³　神应许的他必能成就原来　神给亚伯拉罕和他后裔承受世界的应许，并不是因着律法，而是借着因信而来的义。

¹³For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

¹⁴如果属于律法的人才能成为后嗣，信就没有作用，应许也就落空了。

¹⁴for if they who are of law [are] heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

¹⁵因为律法带来刑罚，没有律法，就没有违背律法的事。

¹⁵for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression.

¹⁶所以，成为后嗣是因着信，为的是要按着　神的恩典，使给所有后裔的应许坚定不移，不但临到那属于律法的人，也临到那效法亚伯拉罕而信的人。亚伯拉罕在　神面前作我们众人的父，

¹⁶Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham,

¹⁷如经上所记：“我已经立了你作万国的父。”他所信的，是叫死人得生命、使无变为有的　神。

¹⁷who is father of us all (according as it hath been written — `A father of many nations I have set thee,`) before Him whom he did believe — God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

¹⁸在他没有盼望的时候，仍然怀着盼望去信，因此就成了万国的父，正如　神所说：“你的后裔将要这样众多。”

¹⁸Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;`

¹⁹他快到一百岁的时候，想到自己的身体好像已经死了，撒拉也不能生育，他的信心还是不软弱，

¹⁹and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah`s womb,

²⁰也没有因着不信而疑惑　神的应许，反倒坚信不移，把荣耀归给　神，

²⁰and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

²¹满心相信　神所应许的，　神必能成就。

²¹and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

²²因此，这就算为他的义。

²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

²³“算为他的义”这一句话，不是单为他写的，

²³And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,

²⁴也是为我们这将来得算为义的人写的，就是为我们这信　神使我们的主耶稣从死人中复活的人写的。

²⁴but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned — to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

²⁵耶稣为我们的过犯被交去处死，为我们的称义而复活。

²⁵who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.