1那么，从我们的先祖亚伯拉罕身上，我们学到什么呢？2如果亚伯拉罕是因为有好行为而被称为义人，他就可以夸口了，但他在上帝面前没有可夸的。3圣经上不是说“亚伯拉罕信上帝，就被算为义人”吗？4人工作得来的工钱不算是恩典，是应得的。5但对于只信赦免罪人的上帝、不靠功劳的人，他的信就被算为义。6大卫也说不靠行为而被上帝算为义的人是有福的，他说：7“过犯得到赦免、罪恶被遮盖的人有福了。8不被主定罪的人有福了。”9那么，这种福分只给受割礼的人吗？还是也给没有受割礼的人呢？因为我们说，亚伯拉罕信上帝，就被算为义人。10他究竟是怎么被算为义人的呢？是他受割礼以前呢？还是以后呢？不是以后，而是以前。11他后来受割礼只不过是一个记号，表明他在受割礼前已经因信而被称为义人了。他因此成为一切未受割礼的信徒之父，使这些人也可以被算为义人。12他也做了受割礼之人的父。这些人不只是受了割礼，还跟随我们先祖亚伯拉罕的脚步，效法他在未受割礼时的信心。13上帝应许将世界赐给亚伯拉罕和他的后裔，不是因为亚伯拉罕遵行了律法，而是因为他因信而成了义人。14如果只有遵行律法的人才可以承受应许，信心就没有价值，上帝的应许也就落了空。15因为有律法，就有刑罚；哪里没有律法，哪里就没有违法的事。16所以，上帝的应许是借着人的信心赐下的，好叫这一切都是出于上帝的恩典，确保应许归给所有亚伯拉罕的子孙，不单是守律法的人，也包括一切效法亚伯拉罕信心的人。17亚伯拉罕在上帝面前是我们所有人的父，正如圣经上说：“我已经立你为万族之父。”他所信的上帝是能够使死人复活、使无变有的上帝。18他在毫无指望的情况下仍然满怀盼望地相信上帝的应许，因而成为“万族之父”，正如上帝的应许：“你的后裔必这么多”。19那时他将近百岁，知道自己身体如同已死，撒拉也过了生育的岁数，但他的信心仍然没有动摇。20他没有因不信而怀疑上帝的应许，反倒信心更加坚定，将荣耀归给上帝。21他完全相信上帝必能实现祂的应许。22因此，他被算为义人。23“他被算为义人”这句话不单单是为他写的，24也是为将来要被算为义人的我们写的，就是相信上帝使主耶稣从死里复活的人。25耶稣受害而死是为了我们的过犯，祂复活是为了使我们成为义人。
English Standard Version
Abraham Justified by Faith
1What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”4Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.5And to the one who does not work but believes in* him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,6just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:7“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;8blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”9Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.10How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.11He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,12and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
The Promise Realized Through Faith
13For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.14For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.15For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.16That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,17as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.18In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”19He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness* of Sarah’s womb.20No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,21fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.22That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”23But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,24but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,25who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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