¹Kaj torej porečemo, da je dosegel Abraham, naš prednik, po mesu?

¹What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

²Kajti če je bil Abraham opravičen iz del, se ima s čim hvaliti, ali ne pri Bogu.

²For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

³Ker kaj pravi pismo? „Veroval pa je Abraham Bogu, in zaračunilo se mu je za pravičnost“.

³For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

⁴A tistemu, ki opravlja dela, se ne računi plačilo po milosti, temuč po dolžnosti.

⁴Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

⁵Tistemu pa, ki ne opravlja del, a veruje v tega, ki opravičuje brezbožnega, se računi njegova vera za pravičnost.

⁵But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

⁶Kakor tudi David pravi, da je blagor človeku, ki mu Bog računi pravičnost brez del:

⁶Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

⁷„Blagor jim, ki so se jim odpustile nepostavnosti in ki so jim grehi prikriti.

⁷“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

⁸Blagor možu, ki mu Gospod nič več ne računi greha“.

⁸Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.” Psalm 32:1-2

⁹Blagrovanje torej to velja li za obrezo ali tudi za neobrezo? Kajti pravimo: Abrahamu se je vera zaračunila za pravičnost.

⁹Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

¹⁰Kako pa se mu je zaračunila? ko je bil v obrezi ali še v neobrezi? Ne v obrezi, ampak v neobrezi.

¹⁰How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹In znamenje obreze je prejel kot pečat pravičnosti vere, ki jo je imel v neobrezi, da bi bil oče vsem, ki verujejo v neobrezi, da bi se njim zaračunila pravičnost,

¹¹He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

¹²in da bi bil oče obreze tistim, ki so ne samo obrezani, ampak tudi hodijo po stopinjah vere očeta našega Abrahama, ki jo je imel v neobrezi.

¹²He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

¹³Kajti ni se dala po postavi obljuba Abrahamu ali njegovemu semenu, da bode dedič sveta, ampak po pravičnosti vere.

¹³For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴Zakaj če so dediči ti, ki se drže postave, ničeva je vera in brez veljave obljuba.

¹⁴For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵Postava namreč napravlja jezo; kjer pa ni postave, tudi ni prestopka.

¹⁵For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

¹⁶Zato je dediščina iz vere, da bode po milosti, da bi bila obljuba trdna vsemu semenu, ne samo temu, ki je iz postave, ampak tudi temu, ki je iz vere Abrahamove; ta je oče vseh nas

¹⁶For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

¹⁷(kakor je pisano: „Za očeta mnogih narodov sem te postavil“) pred obličjem Boga, kateremu je veroval, ki oživlja mrtve in kliče to, česar ni, kakor da je.

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” Genesis 17:5 This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

¹⁸On je veroval v upanje, kjer ni bilo ničesar upati, da postane oče mnogih narodov, kakor mu je bilo rečeno: Tako bode seme tvoje.

¹⁸Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.” Genesis 15:5

¹⁹In ne oslabevši v veri, ni gledal na svoje že omrtvelo telo, ker je imel blizu sto let, niti na odrevenelo maternico Sarino;

¹⁹Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

²⁰glede na obljubo Božjo pa ni dvomil v nejeveri, temuč ojačil se je v veri, in davši čast Bogu,

²⁰Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

²¹je bil popolnoma prepričan, da ima moč tudi storiti, kar je obljubil.

²¹and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

²²Zato se mu je tudi zaračunilo za pravičnost.

²²Therefore it also was “reckoned to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:6

²³Ni pa napisano samo zaradi njega, da se mu je zaračunilo,

²³Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

²⁴ampak tudi zaradi nas, katerim ima biti zaračunjeno, ki verujemo v tistega, ki je obudil Jezusa, Gospoda našega, iz mrtvih;ta je bil dan v smrt za grehe naše in je bil obujen za opravičenje naše.

²⁴but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁵ta je bil dan v smrt za grehe naše in je bil obujen za opravičenje naše.

²⁵who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.