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Kakaj Dios pi jcholajliˈ tran juntir

Wi jilonli, ¿nen chiquiˈ chac mas cojol jkˈijak yak rijajl Israel chiwchak yak maˈ rijajl taˈ Israel? ¿Nen tichacuj retal jtioˈjl jun winak ri ticojsaj? Wiˈ nen quiek jwiˈl. Kes tzˈetel tzˈet yak rijajl Israel nimiˈ jkˈijak jwiˈl Kakaj Dios ojrtaktzij pi reke rechak xyeˈ Jyolj.

Onque wiˈ nicˈj cristian taˈ cubˈul jchˈolak chirij Kakaj Dios, pero Kakaj Dios taˈ tijkˈel ribˈ chi jbˈanic lawiˈ ri bˈil jwiˈl. Kakaj Dios tranaˈ ri bˈil jwiˈl, onque cristian pur ajmololtak tzij chapcaˈ tzˈibˈal li wuj re Lokˈlaj Jyolj ri tijbˈij jilonri:

Chirijiˈ ayolj ticˈutun chi sucˈuliˈ awanm y atchˈeconiˈ chibˈak mak ri tijcoj ribˈak pi kˈatbˈitzij chabˈ chi jbˈij chi taˈ tzˈet ri tabˈij, ticheˈ.

Pero wi jwiˈl kamac ticˈutun chi Kakaj Dios pi jcholajliˈ tran juntir ri bˈil jwiˈl, ¿jcholajlcˈu tran jkˈatbˈitzij chikabˈ? Tijin tambˈij chapcaˈ tijbˈijtak mak cristian. ¡Kes tzˈetel tzˈet, maˈ jcholajl taˈn! Wi maˈ pi jcholajl taˈ tran jkˈatbˈitzij Kakaj Dios chikabˈ jwiˈl kamac, taˈ tijnaˈ tran jkˈatbˈitzij chibˈak juntir cristian jwiˈl jmacak.

Pero wi jwiˈliˈ mak joˈstaklaj tzij ri tambˈij chapcaˈ tijbˈijtak chwij ticˈutun chi tzˈetel tzˈetiˈ ri tijbˈij Kakaj Dios pire tinimirsaj jkˈij, taˈ chiquiˈ roj tran jkˈatbˈitzij Kakaj Dios chwij onque iniˈ jun ajmac. Pero wi jwiˈliˈ mak joˈstaklaj tzij tinimirsaj jkˈij Kakaj Dios ticˈulariˈ tibˈan mak etzltak noˈj pire tinimirsaj jkˈij Kakaj Dios. Wiˈ jujun cristian xkˈabˈantak tzij chwij chi riˈ li tijin tantijoj cristian. Mak cristian li, riˈke rajak taˈ ticojsaj ri nen mo jtijoj cristian tambˈan. Mak cristian li pi jcholajliˈ tibˈan kˈatbˈitzij chibˈak jwiˈl Kakaj Dios.

Taˈ ni jonok sucˈul ranm chiwch Kakaj Dios

Kes tzˈetel tzˈet chiwch Kakaj Dios ojtak yak rijajl Israel taˈ nim kakˈij, ojke nicˈ pach yak maˈ rijajl taˈ Israel, jwiˈl xkabˈijiˈ chi oj yak rijajl Israel pach yak maˈ rijajl taˈ Israel, wojtakaˈ laj jkˈabˈ mac.

10 Chapcaˈ tzˈibˈal li wuj re Lokˈlaj Jyolj Kakaj Dios ri tijbˈij jilonri:
    Ni jun cristian sucˈul ranm chiwch Kakaj Dios, taˈ ni jun.
11     Taˈ ni jun tran tzilaj chomorsaˈn.
    Taˈ ni jun raj tijtoc Kakaj Dios.
12     Juntir cristian jalan bˈe xtakejtak, taˈ ni jun rechak tzi jnoˈj.
    Taˈ ni jun tibˈanow lawiˈ ri tzi, taˈ ni jun.
13     Poc etzltak tzij tichˈaˈwtak, jilon laj jkulak chapcaˈ jun julel camnak ri taˈ tzˈapil jchiˈ.
    Rakˈak tibˈanow rechak tisubˈuntak.
    Jilon mak jxak jchiˈak nicˈ riqˈuil nojsaliˈ chi jqui mak cumatz jwiˈl mak etzltak tzij ri tijbˈijtak laˈ jchiˈak.
14     Jchiˈak nicˈ riqˈuil nojsaliˈ chi etzltak tzij pire tijrayajtak cˈax chirij jun cristian.
15     Laj or ticamsantak,
16     trantak cˈax rechak cristian y tican jyeˈtak bˈis laj ranmak.
17     Y taˈ retamak nen tibˈansaj pire tijyeˈ utzil chijxoˈlak cristian.
18     Y taˈ rajak tijcojtak jkˈij Kakaj Dios, ticheˈ li wuj re Lokˈlaj Jyolj Kakaj Dios.

19 Pero ketamiˈ chi juntir ri tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios pi rechakiˈ yak rijajl Israel ri wiˈtak laj jkˈabˈ mak pixabˈ li. Y cuando ticˈotsaj jchiˈak juntir cristian jwiˈl Kakaj Dios taˈ ni jun tijbˈij chi taˈ jmac, jwiˈl Kakaj Dios tranaˈ jkˈatbˈitzij chibˈak juntir cristian wich ulew, 20 jwiˈl taˈ ni jun cristian tran sucˈul ranm chiwch Kakaj Dios jwiˈlke tran lawiˈ ri tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, jwiˈl mak pixabˈ li xike tichocon pire tijyeˈ retemaj chike chi ojtakaˈ ajmacbˈ.

Ri tichacuj jcubˈarbˈ jchˈol jun cristian

21 Lajori Kakaj Dios xyaˈ retemaj rechak cristian nen rajwax trantak pire tisucˈulabˈ ranmak chiwch, pero maˈ jiˈtaˈ chiquiˈlon chapcaˈ tijbˈij Jpixbˈ. Wi triltak nen tijbˈij mak pixabˈ li pach ri xcan jtzˈibˈajtak yak ajkˈasaltak Jyolj Kakaj Dios ojrtaktzij, tretemajtakaˈ 22 chi juntir cristian jwiˈlke ticubˈar jchˈolak chirij Kakaj Jesucristo tisucˈulabˈ ranmak chiwch Kakaj Dios. Kakaj Dios taˈ jaljoj rilic juntir cristian tran, 23 juntir cristian xmacuntakaˈ chiwch y taˈ tijcˈultak jnimal jkˈijak riqˈui Kakaj Dios.

24 Jwiˈlke rutzil ranm Kakaj Dios chirijak cristian tran sucˈul ranmak chiwch y xsipajke rechak ri jcolicak xansaj laj jkˈabˈ jmacak jwiˈl ri xan Kakaj Jesucristo 25 ri xtaksajch jwiˈl Kakaj Dios pire xcam wich curs chapcaˈ jun awaj ri tisujsaj re Kakaj Dios pire tojbˈi mac. Jilonli xan Kakaj Dios chi jcolicak cristian laj jkˈabˈ jmacak jwiˈlke jquiqˈuel Kakaj Jesucristo y wi ticubˈar jchˈolak chirij. Y jilonli xcˈutun chi Kakaj Dios pi jcholajliˈ tran juntir jwiˈlke ojr xcuyke rilic cristian ri xmacuntak chiwch. 26 Pero lajori xcˈutaˈ chi pi jcholajliˈ tran juntir. Re sucˈuliˈ ranm y tijsucˈulbˈisajiˈ ranmak yak ri ticubˈar jchˈolak chirij Kakaj Jesucristo.

27 Jilonli taˈ tijnaˈ tijcoj jkˈijak cristian chiwch Kakaj Dios jwiˈl maˈ jwiˈl taˈ xantak lawiˈ ri tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, jwiˈliˈ xcubˈar jchˈolak chirij Kakaj Jesucristo. 28 Jwiˈliˈli ketamiˈ chi jun cristian jwiˈlke ticubˈar jchˈol chirij Kakaj Jesucristo tran sucˈul ranm chiwch Kakaj Dios, maˈ jwiˈl taˈ tran lawiˈ ri tijbˈij Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios. 29 Kakaj Dios jDiosakiˈ yak rijajl Israel y jDiosakiˈ yak maˈ rijajl taˈ Israel. 30 Jilonli ticˈutun chi junke chi Dios wiˈ, riˈ Kakaj Dios li tisucˈulbˈisan ranmak juntir cristian ri ticubˈar jchˈolak chirij Kakaj Jesucristo y Kakaj Dios taˈ tril jcholajl wi cojoliˈ retal jtioˈjlak o taˈn. 31 Jwiˈliˈli mi kabˈijtak chi jwiˈl cubˈul kachˈol chirij Kakaj Jesucristo, taˈ chiquiˈ nen tichacuj Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios, jwiˈl jcubˈarbˈ kachˈol chirij Kakaj Jesucristo tijin tikacˈuttak chi tichoconiˈ Jpixbˈ Kakaj Dios.

God’s Faithfulness

What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Much in every way!(A) First of all, the Jews have been entrusted with the very words of God.(B)

What if some were unfaithful?(C) Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?(D) Not at all! Let God be true,(E) and every human being a liar.(F) As it is written:

“So that you may be proved right when you speak
    and prevail when you judge.”[a](G)

But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,(H) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)(I) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(J) Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(K) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(L) Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(M) Their condemnation is just!

No One Is Righteous

What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage?(N) Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.(O) 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”[b](P)
13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”[c](Q)
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[d](R)
14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”[e](S)
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16     ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not know.”[f](T)
18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”[g](U)

19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(V) it says to those who are under the law,(W) so that every mouth may be silenced(X) and the whole world held accountable to God.(Y) 20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;(Z) rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.(AA)

Righteousness Through Faith

21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God(AB) has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.(AC) 22 This righteousness(AD) is given through faith(AE) in[h] Jesus Christ(AF) to all who believe.(AG) There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,(AH) 23 for all have sinned(AI) and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified(AJ) freely by his grace(AK) through the redemption(AL) that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[i](AM) through the shedding of his blood(AN)—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished(AO) 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

27 Where, then, is boasting?(AP) It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. 28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.(AQ) 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,(AR) 30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.(AS) 31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:4 Psalm 51:4
  2. Romans 3:12 Psalms 14:1-3; 53:1-3; Eccles. 7:20
  3. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
  4. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3
  5. Romans 3:14 Psalm 10:7 (see Septuagint)
  6. Romans 3:17 Isaiah 59:7,8
  7. Romans 3:18 Psalm 36:1
  8. Romans 3:22 Or through the faithfulness of
  9. Romans 3:25 The Greek for sacrifice of atonement refers to the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant (see Lev. 16:15,16).

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

17 And the way of peace have they not known:

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.