| 1 إِذًا مَا هُوَ فَضْلُ الْيَهُودِيِّ، أَوْ مَا هُوَ نَفْعُ الْخِتَانِ؟ | 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? |
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| 2 كَثِيرٌ عَلَى كُلِّ وَجْهٍ! أَمَّا أَوَّلاً فَلأَنَّهُمُ اسْتُؤْمِنُوا عَلَى أَقْوَالِ اللهِ. | 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. |
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| 3 فَمَاذَا إِنْ كَانَ قَوْمٌ لَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَنَاءَ؟ أَفَلَعَلَّ عَدَمَ أَمَانَتِهِمْ يُبْطِلُ أَمَانَةَ اللهِ؟ | 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? |
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| 4 حَاشَا! بَلْ لِيَكُنِ اللهُ صَادِقًا وَكُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ كَاذِبًا. كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ: «لِكَيْ تَتَبَرَّرَ فِي كَلاَمِكَ، وَتَغْلِبَ مَتَى حُوكِمْتَ». | 4 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. |
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| 5 وَلكِنْ إِنْ كَانَ إِثْمُنَا يُبَيِّنُ بِرَّ اللهِ، فَمَاذَا نَقُولُ؟ أَلَعَلَّ اللهَ الَّذِي يَجْلِبُ الْغَضَبَ ظَالِمٌ؟ أَتَكَلَّمُ بِحَسَبِ الإِنْسَانِ. | 5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) |
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| 6 حَاشَا! فَكَيْفَ يَدِينُ اللهُ الْعَالَمَ إِذْ ذَاكَ؟ | 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? |
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| 7 فَإِنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ صِدْقُ اللهِ قَدِ ازْدَادَ بِكَذِبِي لِمَجْدِهِ، فَلِمَاذَا أُدَانُ أَنَا بَعْدُ كَخَاطِئٍ؟ | 7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? |
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| 8 أَمَا كَمَا يُفْتَرَى عَلَيْنَا، وَكَمَا يَزْعُمُ قَوْمٌ أَنَّنَا نَقُولُ: «لِنَفْعَلِ السَّيِّآتِ لِكَيْ تَأْتِيَ الْخَيْرَاتُ»؟ الَّذِينَ دَيْنُونَتُهُمْ عَادِلَةٌ. | 8 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. |
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الجميع قد زاغوا | |
| 9 فَمَاذَا إِذًا؟ أَنَحْنُ أَفْضَلُ؟ كَّلاَ الْبَتَّةَ! لأَنَّنَا قَدْ شَكَوْنَا أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ وَالْيُونَانِيِّينَ أَجْمَعِينَ تَحْتَ الْخَطِيَّةِ، | 9 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; |
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| 10 كَمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ: «أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَارٌّ وَلاَ وَاحِدٌ. | 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: |
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| 11 لَيْسَ مَنْ يَفْهَمُ. لَيْسَ مَنْ يَطْلُبُ اللهَ. | 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. |
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| 12 الْجَمِيعُ زَاغُوا وَفَسَدُوا مَعًا. لَيْسَ مَنْ يَعْمَلُ صَلاَحًا لَيْسَ وَلاَ وَاحِدٌ. | 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
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| 13 حَنْجَرَتُهُمْ قَبْرٌ مَفْتُوحٌ. بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ قَدْ مَكَرُوا. سِمُّ الأَصْلاَلِ تَحْتَ شِفَاهِهِمْ. | 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: |
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| 14 وَفَمُهُمْ مَمْلُوءٌ لَعْنَةً وَمَرَارَةً. | 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: |
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| 15 أَرْجُلُهُمْ سَرِيعَةٌ إِلَى سَفْكِ الدَّمِ. | 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: |
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| 16 فِي طُرُقِهِمِ اغْتِصَابٌ وَسُحْقٌ. | 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: |
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| 17 وَطَرِيقُ السَّلاَمِ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوهُ. | 17 And the way of peace have they not known: |
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| 18 لَيْسَ خَوْفُ اللهِ قُدَّامَ عُيُونِهِمْ». | 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. |
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| 19 وَنَحْنُ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ كُلَّ مَا يَقُولُهُ النَّامُوسُ فَهُوَ يُكَلِّمُ بِهِ الَّذِينَ فِي النَّامُوسِ، لِكَيْ يَسْتَدَّ كُلُّ فَمٍ، وَيَصِيرَ كُلُّ الْعَالَمِ تَحْتَ قِصَاصٍ مِنَ اللهِ. | 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. |
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| 20 لأَنَّهُ بِأَعْمَالِ النَّامُوسِ كُلُّ ذِي جَسَدٍ لاَ يَتَبَرَّرُ أَمَامَهُ. لأَنَّ بِالنَّامُوسِ مَعْرِفَةَ الْخَطِيَّةِ. | 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. |
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التبرير بالإيمان | |
| 21 وَأَمَّا الآنَ فَقَدْ ظَهَرَ بِرُّ اللهِ بِدُونِ النَّامُوسِ، مَشْهُودًا لَهُ مِنَ النَّامُوسِ وَالأَنْبِيَاءِ، | 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; |
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| 22 بِرُّ اللهِ بِالإِيمَانِ بِيَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ، إِلَى كُلِّ وَعَلَى كُلِّ الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ. لأَنَّهُ لاَ فَرْقَ. | 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: |
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| 23 إِذِ الْجَمِيعُ أَخْطَأُوا وَأَعْوَزَهُمْ مَجْدُ اللهِ، | 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; |
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| 24 مُتَبَرِّرِينَ مَجَّانًا بِنِعْمَتِهِ بِالْفِدَاءِ الَّذِي بِيَسُوعَ الْمَسِيحِ، | 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: |
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| 25 الَّذِي قَدَّمَهُ اللهُ كَفَّارَةً بِالإِيمَانِ بِدَمِهِ، لإِظْهَارِ بِرِّهِ، مِنْ أَجْلِ الصَّفْحِ عَنِ الْخَطَايَا السَّالِفَةِ بِإِمْهَالِ اللهِ. | 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; |
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| 26 لإِظْهَارِ بِرِّهِ فِي الزَّمَانِ الْحَاضِرِ، لِيَكُونَ بَارًّا وَيُبَرِّرَ مَنْ هُوَ مِنَ الإِيمَانِ بِيَسُوعَ. | 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. |
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| 27 فَأَيْنَ الافْتِخَارُ؟ قَدِ انْتَفَى. بِأَيِّ نَامُوسٍ؟ أَبِنَامُوسِ الأَعْمَالِ؟ كَّلاَّ. بَلْ بِنَامُوسِ الإِيمَانِ. | 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. |
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| 28 إِذًا نَحْسِبُ أَنَّ الإِنْسَانَ يَتَبَرَّرُ بِالإِيمَانِ بِدُونِ أَعْمَالِ النَّامُوسِ. | 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. |
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| 29 أَمِ اللهُ لِلْيَهُودِ فَقَطْ؟ أَلَيْسَ لِلأُمَمِ أَيْضًا؟ بَلَى، لِلأُمَمِ أَيْضًا | 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: |
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| 30 لأَنَّ اللهَ وَاحِدٌ، هُوَ الَّذِي سَيُبَرِّرُ الْخِتَانَ بِالإِيمَانِ وَالْغُرْلَةَ بِالإِيمَانِ. | 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. |
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| 31 أَفَنُبْطِلُ النَّامُوسَ بِالإِيمَانِ؟ حَاشَا! بَلْ نُثَبِّتُ النَّامُوسَ. | 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. |
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