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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 P era 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,

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

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

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

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

happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

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.

this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision -- for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham -- to righteousness?

10 H e 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:

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

11 A 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;

and 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,

12 H ei 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.

and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

13 E hara 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.

For not through law the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

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

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

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

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

16 K oia 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,

Because of this of faith, that according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which of the law only, but also to that which of the faith of Abraham,

17 K o 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.

who 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.

18 A hakoa 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.

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

19 K ihai 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:

and 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,

20 A e, 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,

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

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

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

22 K oia hoki i whakairia ai ki a ia hei tika.

wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

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

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

24 E ngari 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:

but 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,

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

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