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

¹Ahihleh, Abraham sa dana I pu un, bang ahia a muh i gen ding?

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

²Abrahamin thilhih jiaka siam a tan ngalleh, suan ding a nei ahi, Pathian maah jaw hi hetlouin.

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

³Laisiangthouin bang a gena ahia? Abrahamin Pathian a ging taa, huan, huai ginna tuh a diknaa seh ahi, chiin a gen ahi.

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

⁴Huan, nasemmi loh tuh hehpihna a seh ahi keia, bata seh ahi jaw hi.

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

⁵Ahihhangin, na sem loua, Pathian limsaklou siamtangsakpa gingta zomi ginna tuh, amah diktatna a seh ahi.

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

⁶Mi, a thilhih ngaihtuah loua, Pathianin diktata a seh, vual a jawl sak thu David in leng,

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

⁷A tatleknate uh ngaihdama om leh, a khelhnate uh khuha omte, a hampha uhi,

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

⁸Toupan khelhna neia a seh louhte a hampha uhi, chia a gen bangin.

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

⁹Ahihleh, huai hamphatna zeksumte tungah kia hia a om, zeksumloute tungah leng? Abraham ginna a diktatna seh ahi, i chi ngala.

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

¹⁰Huai bangchi seh ahia leh? A zeksum nungin hia, a zeksum main? A zeksum nungin ahi keia, a zeksum ma in ahi jaw hi.

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.

¹¹Huchiin, zeksumlouh a hih laia ginna jiaka diktatna a muh chiamtehna dingin zeksum tuh a mu hi. Huchi-a amah tuh zeksumlouhte, ahihhanga gingtaa diktatna sehsaka omte, tengteng pa ahih theihna ding.

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.

¹²Huan, huchimah banga, zeksumte, ahihhanga zeksum phet hilou-a i pa uh Abrahamin zek a sum maa ginna a neih bang ginna neite pa a hihtheihna ding ahi.

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.

¹³Abraham; leh a suante kianga, khovel gouluah ding ahi ding uh chih thuchiam jaw dana kinga ahi keia, ginna jiaka diktatna a kinga ahi jaw hi.

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

¹⁴Dan nei mite gouluahte hi ding hile ubel, ginna bangmahin a phatuam keia, thuchiam leng thuchiam ahita kei hi.

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

¹⁵Danin hehna a tun nak ngala; himahleh dan omlouhna ah tatlekna leng a om kei hi.

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.

¹⁶Huaijiakin, thuchiam tuh hehpihna a piak a hihtheihna dingin ginnaa kinga ahi, suante tengtengin thuchiam pellou-a a luah theihna dingun. Dan nei mite kian a luah kei ding ua, Abraham neih bang ginna neiten leng a luah sam ding uhi; amah tuh i vek ua pa ahi ngala.

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.

¹⁷Nam tampite pain ka honbawlta, chia gelh bangin, misite hihhingpa leh thil omloute om bang a genpa a gin Pathian mitmuh ah eite paa bawlin a om hi.

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

¹⁸Lamet tuaka a om louhin leng aman jaw lamen takin a gingta a, chi tampite pa a honghih theihna dingin: Tua bangin na suante a honghi ding uh, chia hilha a om bangin.

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.

¹⁹Huan, ginna kiplou tuan louin, a pumpi sisa banga om tuh a ngaihtuaha, (amah kum ja khawng mi ahi ngala), Sara ching leng a ngaihtuah sama.

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

²⁰Himahleh, ginna tasamin Pathian thuchiam a ging lel keia, Pathian a pahtawia,

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

²¹A thuchiam a lohching sak thei chih leng a gingta mahmaha, a ginna a hongkip zota hi.

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

²²Huaijiakin a ginna tuh a diktatna a seh ana hita.

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

²³Huchiin, a ginna tuh a diktatna seh ahi chih amah jiak kiaa gelh ahi keia, eite jiakin leng ahi.

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

²⁴Jesu i Toupa misi laka kipana kaithoupa gingtate i hia. I ginna tuh diktatna a seh ahi ding hi.Huai Jesu tuh i tatlekna jiaka matsaka om a, siam i tanna dinga kaihthoha om ahi.

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

²⁵Huai Jesu tuh i tatlekna jiaka matsaka om a, siam i tanna dinga kaihthoha om ahi.