¹فماذا نقول ان ابانا ابراهيم قد وجد حسب الجسد.

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

²لانه ان كان ابراهيم قد تبرر بالاعمال فله فخر. ولكن ليس لدى الله.

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

³لانه ماذا يقول الكتاب. فآمن ابراهيم بالله فحسب له برا.

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

⁴اما الذي يعمل فلا تحسب له الاجرة على سبيل نعمة بل على سبيل دين.

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

⁵واما الذي لا يعمل ولكن يؤمن بالذي يبرر الفاجر فايمانه يحسب له برا.

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

⁶كما يقول داود ايضا في تطويب الانسان الذي يحسب له الله برا بدون اعمال.

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

⁷طوبى للذين غفرت آثامهم وسترت خطاياهم.

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

⁸طوبى للرجل الذي لا يحسب له الرب خطية.

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

⁹أفهذا التطويب هو على الختان فقط ام على الغرلة ايضا. لاننا نقول انه حسب لابراهيم الايمان برا.

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?

¹⁰فكيف حسب. أوهو في الختان ام في الغرلة. ليس في الختان بل في الغرلة.

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

¹¹واخذ علامة الختان ختما لبر الايمان الذي كان في الغرلة ليكون ابا لجميع الذين يؤمنون وهم في الغرلة كي يحسب لهم ايضا البر.

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,

¹²وابا للختان للذين ليسوا من الختان فقط بل ايضا يسلكون في خطوات ايمان ابينا ابراهيم الذي كان وهو في الغرلة.

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.

¹³فانه ليس بالناموس كان الوعد لابراهيم او لنسله ان يكون وارثا للعالم بل ببر الايمان.

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;

¹⁴لانه ان كان الذين من الناموس هم ورثة فقد تعطل الايمان وبطل الوعد.

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

¹⁵لان الناموس ينشئ غضبا اذ حيث ليس ناموس ليس ايضا تعدّ.

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

¹⁶لهذا 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.

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,

¹⁷كما هو مكتوب اني قد جعلتك ابا لامم كثيرة. امام الله الذي آمن به الذي يحيي الموتى ويدعو الاشياء غير الموجودة كانها موجودة.

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.

¹⁸فهو على خلاف الرجاء آمن على الرجاء لكي يصير ابا لامم كثيرة كما قيل هكذا يكون نسلك.

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

¹⁹واذ لم يكن ضعيفا في الايمان لم يعتبر جسده وهو قد صار مماتا اذ كان ابن نحو مئة سنة ولا مماتية مستودع سارة.

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,

²⁰ولا بعدم ايمان ارتاب في وعد الله بل تقوّى بالايمان معطيا مجدا للّه.

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

²¹وتيقن ان ما وعد به هو قادر ان يفعله ايضا.

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

²²لذلك ايضا حسب له برا.

²²wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

²³ولكن لم يكتب من اجله وحده انه حسب له

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

²⁴بل من اجلنا نحن ايضا الذين سيحسب لنا الذين نؤمن بمن اقام يسوع ربنا من الاموات.

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,

²⁵الذي أسلم من اجل خطايانا وأقيم لاجل تبريرنا

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