¹What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

¹¶ Ha, he aha ra te painga i hua ki te Hurai? he aha te rawa o te kotinga?

²Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

²He nui ra i nga mea katoa: Ko te tuatahi, kua akona ratou ki nga kupu a te Atua.

³For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

³Ka pehea, mehemea kahore he whakapono o etahi? e taka ranei to te Atua pono i to ratou whakaponokore?

⁴God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

⁴Kahore rapea: engari ko te Atua kia kitea he pono, ko nga tangata katoa he teka kau; ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia, Kia tika ai tau i tau korerotanga, kia puta ai tau ina whakawakia koe.

⁵But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

⁵Ha, ki te mea na to tatou he i kitea nuitia ai to te Atua tika, me pehea he kupu ma tatou? E he ana ranei te Atua i a ia e whakapa ana i te riri? he kupu tangata tenei naku:

⁶God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

⁶Kahore rapea: penei me pehea te Atua e whakawa ai i te ao?

⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

⁷Na ki te mea na toku teka i hira rawa ai to te Atua pono hei kororia mona; he aha ahau i whakahengia tonutia ai ano hei tangata hara?

⁸And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁸He aha hoki te penei ai, a ko te kupu whakapae teka tenei mo matou, a ki ta etahi ko ta matou kupu tenei, Tatou ka mahi i te kino, kia puta ai he pai? tika tonu te tau o te he ki a ratou.

⁹What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

⁹He aha koia? he pai ake ranei to matou wahi i to ratou? Kahore ra hoki: kua oti hoki te whakapa e matou i mua he he ki nga Hurai, ki nga Kariki, kei raro katoa ratou i te hara;

¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

¹⁰Ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia, Kahore he tangata tika, kahore kia kotahi:

¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

¹¹Kahore he tangata e matau ana, kahore he tangata e rapu ana i te Atua;

¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

¹²Kua peka ke ratou katoa, kua kino ngatahi: kahore he tangata e mahi ana i te pai, kahore rawa kia kotahi.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

¹³He urupa puare noa to ratou korokoro; e patipati ana o ratou arero; kei roto i o ratou ngutu te wai whakamate o nga nakahi:

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁴Ki tonu o ratou mangai i te kanga, i te nanakia:

¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood:

¹⁵Ko o ratou waewae, hohoro tonu ki te whakaheke toto:

¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways:

¹⁶He whakangaro, he ngakau pouri, kei o ratou ara:

¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known:

¹⁷Kahore hoki ratou i mohio ki te ara o te rangimarie:

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁸Kahore he wehi o te Atua i mua i o ratou kanohi.

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

¹⁹¶ Na, e matau ana tatou ki nga kupu o te ture, e korero ana ki te hunga i te ture, kia kopia ai nga mangai katoa, kia whakawakia ai te ao katoa e te Atua.

²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²⁰No te mea kahore he mahi o te ture e tika ai tetahi kikokiko i tona aroaro: ma roto mai i te ture te matauranga ki te hara.

²¹But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²¹Otiia kua whakakitea inaianei he tika a te Atua, motu ke i te ture, he mea whakaatu na te ture, na nga poropiti;

²²Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²²Ara ko te tika a te Atua e na runga mai ana i te whakapono ki a Ihu Karaiti ki te hunga katoa e whakapono ana: kahore hoki he pokanga ketanga:

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²³Kua hara katoa hoki, a kahore e taea e ratou te kororia o te Atua;

²⁴Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁴He mea whakatika utukore na tona aroha noa, i runga i ta Karaiti Ihu hokonga:

²⁵Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁵Ko ia hoki ta te Atua i whakaari ai hei whakamarie, i runga i te whakapono, he mea na ona toto; kia whakakitea ai tona tika, i te mea ka whakapahemotia atu nga hara o mua, he mea hoki na te manawanui o te Atua;

²⁶To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

²⁶Hei whakakite i tona tika i tenei wa nei ano: he mea kia tika ai ia ano, me te kaiwhakatika i te tangata e whakapono ana ki a Ihu.

²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

²⁷Na, kei hea te whakamanamana? Kua araia atu. E tehea ritenga ture? e to nga mahi? Kahore: engari e te ture o te whakapono.

²⁸Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

²⁸Koia matou ka mea ai, kei te whakapono he tika mo te tangata, motu ke i nga mahi o te ture.

²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

²⁹Ko te Atua oti te Atua o nga Hurai anake? ehara ranei ia i te Atua o nga tauiwi hoki? Ae ra, o nga tauiwi ano hoki:

³⁰Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

³⁰Ki te mea ia he kotahi te Atua, a mana e whakatika te kotinga i runga i te whakapono, me te kotingakore ina whakapono.

³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

³¹E taka ranei te ture i ta matou, ara i te whakapono? Kahore rapea: engari na ta matou i u ai te ture.