1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed. 5 But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

7 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,

whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."

9 Is this blessing then pronounced only on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 He 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. 12 He 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.

13 For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. 15 For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

16 For 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 offspring, 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 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." 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. 18 Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your offspring be." 19 Without 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. 20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform. 22 Therefore it also was "credited to him for righteousness." 23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone, 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

1 那么， 论到在血统（"血统"原文作"肉身"）上作我们祖先的亚伯拉罕所经验的， 我们可以说什么呢？

2 亚伯拉罕若是因行为称义， 就有可夸的， 只是不能在 神面前夸口。

3 经上怎么样说呢？"亚伯拉罕信 神， 这就算为他的义。"

4 作工的得工资， 不算是恩典， 是他应得的。

5 可是， 那不作工而只信那称不敬虔的人为义的 神的， 他的信就算为义了。

6 大卫也是这样说， 那不靠行为而蒙 神算为义的人是有福的！

7 "过犯得蒙赦免， 罪恶得到遮盖的人， 是有福的；

8 主不算为有罪的， 这人是有福的。"

9 这样看来， 那有福的人， 是指受割礼的呢， 还是指没有受割礼的呢？因为我们说： "亚伯拉罕的信算为他的义。"

10 那么， 是怎样算的呢？是在他受割礼以后呢， 还是在他受割礼之前呢？不是在他受割礼以后， 而是在他受了割礼以前。

11 他领受了割礼为记号， 作他受割礼之前因信称义的印证， 使他作所有没有受割礼而信之人的父， 使他们也被算为义；

12 又作受割礼之人的父， 就是作那些不仅受割礼， 并且照着我们祖宗亚伯拉罕未受割礼时就信的那脚踪而行之人的父。

13 原来 神给亚伯拉罕和他后裔承受世界的应许， 并不是因着律法， 而是借着因信而来的义。

14 如果属于律法的人才能成为后嗣， 信就没有作用， 应许也就落空了。

15 因为律法带来刑罚， 没有律法， 就没有违背律法的事。

16 所以， 成为后嗣是因着信， 为的是要按着 神的恩典， 使给所有后裔的应许坚定不移， 不但临到那属于律法的人， 也临到那效法亚伯拉罕而信的人。亚伯拉罕在 神面前作我们众人的父，

17 如经上所记： "我已经立了你作万国的父。"他所信的， 是叫死人得生命、使无变为有的 神。

18 在他没有盼望的时候， 仍然怀着盼望去信， 因此就成了万国的父， 正如 神所说： "你的后裔将要这样众多。"

19 他快到一百岁的时候， 想到自己的身体好像已经死了， 撒拉也不能生育， 他的信心还是不软弱，

20 也没有因着不信而疑惑 神的应许， 反倒坚信不移， 把荣耀归给 神，

21 满心相信 神所应许的， 神必能成就。

22 因此， 这就算为他的义。

23 "算为他的义"这一句话， 不是单为他写的，

24 也是为我们这将来得算为义的人写的， 就是为我们这信 神使我们的主耶稣从死人中复活的人写的。

25 耶稣为我们的过犯被交去处死， 为我们的称义而复活。