因信稱義的應許 The Promise of Justification by Faith
羅馬書第四章
13 因為神應許亞伯拉罕和他後裔,必得承受世界,不是因律法,乃是因信而得的義。
14 若是屬乎律法的人才得為後嗣,信就歸於虛空,應許也就廢棄了。
15 因為律法是惹動忿怒的(或作:叫人受刑的);那裡沒有律法,那裡就沒有過犯。
16 所以人得為後嗣是本乎信,因此就屬乎恩,叫應許定然歸給一切後裔;不但歸給那屬乎律法的,也歸給那效法亞伯拉罕之信的。
17 亞伯拉罕所信的,是那叫死人復活、使無變為有的神,他在主面前作我們世人的父。如經上所記:我已經立你作多國的父。
18 他在無可指望的時候,因信仍有指望,就得以作多國的父,正如先前所說,你的後裔將要如此。
19 他將近百歲的時候,雖然想到自己的身體如同已死,撒拉的生育已經斷絕,他的信心還是不軟弱;
20 並且仰望神的應許,總沒有因不信心裡起疑惑,反倒因信心裡得堅固,將榮耀歸給神,
21 且滿心相信神所應許的必能作成。
22 所以,這就算為他的義。
23 算為他義的這句話不是單為他寫的,
24 也是為我們將來得算為義之人寫的,就是我們這信神使我們的主耶穌從死裡復活的人。
25 耶穌被交給人,是為我們的過犯;復活,是為叫我們稱義(或作:耶穌是為我們的過犯交付了,是為我們稱義復活了)。
Roman 4
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might 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,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. before him: or, like unto him
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him
24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.