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

¹¶ He aha ra, ki ta tatou, te mea i riro i a Aperahama, i to tatou tupuna i runga i te kikokiko?

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

²Mehemea hoki na nga mahi i tika ai a Aperahama, he mea tana e whakamanamana ai ia; otira kahore ki te Atua.

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

³E pehea ana oti ta te karaipiture? I whakapono a Aperahama ki te Atua, a whakairia ana hei tika mona.

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

⁴Na he tangata e mahi ana, e kore e kiia te utu mona he mea aroha noa, engari he mea mo tana.

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

⁵Otira ko te tangata kahore e mahi, engari e whakapono ana ki te kaiwhakatika i te tangata karakiakore, ka whakairia tona whakapono hei tika mona.

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

⁶Pera hoki me ta Rawiri korero i te manaaki ki te tangata, ka whakairia nei e te Atua he tika ki a ia, motu ke i nga mahi,

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

⁷I ki ai ia, Ka hari te hunga kua oti a ratou mahi tutu te muru, o ratou hara te hipoki:

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

⁸Ka hari te tangata e kore nei e whakairia e te Ariki he hara ki a ia.

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?

⁹¶ E korerotia ana ranei tenei haringa mo te kotinga, mo te kotingakore ano ranei? e mea ana hoki tatou, I whakairia tona whakapono hei tika mo Aperahama.

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

¹⁰He pehea ra te whakairinga? i a ia i te kotinga, i te kotingakore ranei? He teka i a ia i te kotinga, engari i te kotingakore:

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,

¹¹A riro ana i a ia te kotinga hei tohu, hei hiri mo te tika o tona whakapono, i a ia i te kotingakore: kia waiho ai ia hei matua ki te hunga katoa e whakapono ana, ahakoa kahore ratou i kotia, kia whakairia ai te tika ki a ratou;

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.

¹²Hei matua ano mo te kotinga ki te hunga ehara i te mea no te kotinga anake, engari e takahi ana hoki i runga i nga tapuae o taua whakapono o to tatou matua, o Aperahama, i a ia kahore ano i kotia.

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;

¹³Ehara i te mea i na runga mai i te ture te kupu ki a Aperahama ratou ko ona uri mo te ao ka riro i a ia; engari i na runga mai i te tika o te whakapono.

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

¹⁴Mehemea hoki ka riro i te hunga ture, kua tikangakore te whakapono, kua taka te kupu whakaari:

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

¹⁵Ko ta te ture hoki e mahi ai, he riri; engari ki te kahore he ture, kahore hoki he hara.

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,

¹⁶Koia i na rototia ai i te whakapono, kia waiho ai ma te aroha noa; kia u ai te kupu whakaari ki te whanau katoa; ehara i te mea ki to te ture anake, engari ki to te whakapono ano o Aperahama, ko ia nei hoki te matua o tatou katoa,

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.

¹⁷¶ Ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia, Kua waiho koe e ahau hei matua ki nga iwi maha, he matua i te aroaro o tana i whakapono ai, ara o te Atua, e whakaora nei i nga tupapaku, e karanga nei i nga mea kua kahore me te mea kei konei nei ano.

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

¹⁸Ahakoa kahore he rawa, u tonu tona manakonako ki a ia, kia meinga ai ia hei matua mo nga iwi maha, pera me te mea i korerotia, Ka penei tau whanau.

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,

¹⁹Kihai ano i ngoikore tona whakapono, i mahara iho ia ki tona tinana, he penei me te mea kua tupapakutia, wahi iti hoki kua kotahi rau ona tau, ki te tupapakutanga hoki o te kopu o Hera:

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

²⁰Ae, i titiro ia ki te kupu whakaari a te Atua, kihai ia i ruarua i runga i te whakaponokore, engari ka kaha tonu tona whakapono, me te whakakororia ki te Atua,

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

²¹U tonu hoki tona whakaaro e taea e ia te mea tana i korero ai.

²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

²²Koia hoki i whakairia ai ki a ia hei tika.

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

²³¶ Otira ehara i te mea he whakaaro ki a ia anake i tuhituhia ai taua whakairinga ki a ia;

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,

²⁴Engari he whakaaro ki a tatou ano hoki; ka whakairia ki a tatou e whakapono nei ki te kaiwhakaara i a Ihu, i to tatou Ariki, i te hunga mate:

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

²⁵I tukua nei mo o tatou he, i whakaarahia mo tatou kia whakatikaia.