1 PBS Nya janetoto Abrham te, kei pipave nora nene? BSB BSB: What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?
2 PBS Pa kei Abraham jakeleko kebamua teni, kei nave keweko nokenalulule, pa Tata hokeka. BSB BSB: If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
4 PBS Ana bau janoloile, tu-kekei ana jana tejajijikate, pakei jakeke. BSB BSB: Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
5 PBS Pa ana bba-janoloka, pa Ke-kekeki teba fefe kelepate bamua, hupalanave kekakite bamua. BSB BSB: However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
6 PBS Ana Daud lo hevewo eba jaelekapa Tata e-bamua kelo: BSB BSB: And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 PBS "Hevewo eba jafefele-ei kejo, pa nole e-ekepu; BSB BSB: “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
8 PBS hevewo meba nole memei Tata kakitikeka." BSB BSB: Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”
9 PBS Motuna piti hevewowe lewawa potejafa na poteja karai? Pa kei neto, kei te Abraham hupalanavei tejaji ana bamua. BSB BSB: Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
10 PBS Noroha noha jai tejaji? Poteja kapatete na tejapa tete? Tejapa teteka, pa teja pa tete. BSB BSB: In what context was it credited? Was it after his circumcision, or before? It was not after, but before.
11 PBS Pa poteja koli-i tewe ana ma-bamuapepe wa hupalanavepa tenarue, potejakafuapa. Noia Ke-lela Ai teba lelepa keji potejakai, u-jabamuai tejajiji-te, BSB BSB: And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
12 PBS pa kera teba poteja rete, kei teba potejakafa, pakei telala Abraham hupalanave keke, pipafe nene, po-ke poterika. BSB BSB: And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
13 PBS Kei ma-kekeka jekelokoi kekele Abraham pa pipafe keke, kei fitowe tewewete, pakei bamua-mpa, wa hupalanave. BSB BSB: For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
14 PBS Pakei tejoete wa ma-keke, Tata jakelokoi tewewte, pakei hupalanavei afia pa jakelokoi kitalu. BSB BSB: For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
15 PBS Kei ma-keke keleko huvevetu, pa kene ma-kekekai, keira jafefe teteka. BSB BSB: because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
16 PBS Peanya jabamuai wa nave hupalaave u-keianara pipte, ko jakelokoi lewawa Abraham pipafeke lelepa, kei teba te-ete ma-kekfaka, pa teba te-ete Abraham hupalanave kerai. BSB BSB: Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
17 PBS Ana putukotu: "Tebapapa aitei mea no-Ni-lu"- Tata hoke te-Ke ko-ke kekeki, kei Tata tebabi keleko telefuto pa pife-Keke-pa keleko jamokai-mo. BSB BSB: As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
18 PBS Kei janaveura kokako nenonenete, pakei Abraham kekoi pa kekeki, kei kelelala tebapa rete, anara pifekeke nuko: "Anai pipave meme nawo." BSB BSB: Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
19 PBS Hupalanave keke ekuka, kei kelu, nupara kekei ekulo, keu felaro kekei 100, pa Sara-i pe-babo. BSB BSB: Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
20 PBS Pa ja-Tata lokoi keroworaka kei kekeki-kaka, pakei hupalanave keke nave wele pa Tata pikelo, BSB BSB: Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
21 PBS pa lakaki, kei Tata makeke jakelokoi jakelelele. BSB BSB: being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.
22 PBS Peanya jawe tejaji tekei ana jabamua. BSB BSB: This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”
23 PBS Pitiwe, kei "jawe tejajite-ke, "putuko Abraham wofaka, BSB BSB: Now the words “it was credited to him” were written not only for Abraham,
24 PBS pa kei japutuko to-nerai, pakei tonera Tata kaki, kei nera Ke-keneni, Oke keleko kelefuto, Tata nene, wa tebabi lahoute, BSB BSB: but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25 PBS kei Yesus, kei jafefe neteneko ketekefe pa kelefuto kei heve nene. BSB BSB: He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
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