1. सो हम क्या कहें, कि हमारे शारीरिक पिता इब्राहीम को क्या प्राप्त हुआ?

1. So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things?

2. क्योंकि यदि इब्राहीम कामों से धर्मी ठहराया जाता, तो उसे घमण्ड करने की जगह होती, परन्तु परमेश्वर के निकट नहीं।
उत्पत्ति 15:6

2. If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we're given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story.

3. पवित्रा शास्त्रा क्या कहता है? यह कि इब्राहीम ने परमेश्वर पर विश्वास किया, और यह उसके लिये धार्मिकता गिना गया।
उत्पत्ति 15:6

3. What we read in Scripture is, 'Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.'

4. काम करनेवाले की मजदूरी देना दान नहीं, परन्तु हक्क समझा जाता है।

4. If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift.

5. परन्तु जो काम नहीं करता बरन भक्तिहीन के धर्मी ठहरानेवाले पर विश्वास करता है, उसका विश्वास उसके लिये धार्मिकता गिना जाता है।

5. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it--you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked--well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

6. जिसे परमेश्वर बिना कमों के धर्मी ठहराता है, उसे दाऊद भी धन्य कहता है।

6. David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man:

7. कि धन्य वे हैं, जिन के अधर्म क्षमा हुए, और जिन के पाप ढ़ापे गए।
भजन संहिता 32:1-2

7. Fortunate those whose crimes are carted off, whose sins are wiped clean from the slate.

8. धन्य है वह मनुष्य जिसे परमेश्वर पापी न ठहराए।
भजन संहिता 32:1-2

8. Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score.

9. तो यह धन्य कहना, क्या खतनावालों ही के लिये है, या खतनारहितों के लिये भी? हम यह कहते हैं, कि इब्राहीम के लिये उसका विश्वास धार्मिकता गिना गया।
उत्पत्ति 15:6

9. Do you think for a minute that this blessing is only pronounced over those of us who keep our religious ways and are circumcised? Or do you think it possible that the blessing could be given to those who never even heard of our ways, who were never brought up in the disciplines of God? We all agree, don't we, that it was by embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God?

10. तो वह क्योंकर गिना गया? खतने की दशा में या बिना खतने की दशा में? खतने की दशा में नहीं परन्तु बिना खतने की दशा में।

10. Now think: Was that declaration made before or after he was marked by the covenant rite of circumcision? That's right, before he was marked.

11. और उस ने खतने का चिन्ह पाया, कि उस विश्वास की धार्मिकता पर छाप हो जाए, जो उस ने बिना खतने की दशा में रखा था: जिस से वह उन सब का पिता ठहरे, जो बिना खतने की दशा में विश्वास करते हैं, और कि वे भी धर्मी ठहरें।
उत्पत्ति 17:11

11. That means that he underwent circumcision as evidence and confirmation of what God had done long before to bring him into this acceptable standing with himself, an act of God he had embraced with his whole life.

12. और उन खतना किए हुओं का पिता हो, जो न केवल खतना किए हुए हैं, परन्तु हमारे पिता इब्राहीम के उस विश्वास की लीक पर भी चलते हैं, जो उस ने बिन खतने की दशा में किया था।

12. And it means further that Abraham is father of all people who embrace what God does for them while they are still on the 'outs' with God, as yet unidentified as God's, in an 'uncircumcised' condition. It is precisely these people in this condition who are called 'set right by God and with God'! Abraham is also, of course, father of those who have undergone the religious rite of circumcision not just because of the ritual but because they were willing to live in the risky faith-embrace of God's action for them, the way Abraham lived long before he was marked by circumcision.

13. क्योंकि यह प्रतिज्ञा कि वह जगत का वारिस होगा, न इब्राहीम को, न उसके वंश को व्यवस्था के द्वारा दी गई थी, परन्तु विश्वास की धार्मिकता के द्वारा मिली।
उत्पत्ति 18:18, उत्पत्ति 22:17-18

13. That famous promise God gave Abraham--that he and his children would possess the earth--was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God's decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed.

14. क्योंकि यदि व्यवस्थावाले वारिस हैं, तो विश्वास व्यर्थ और प्रतिज्ञा निष्फल ठहरी।

14. If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract! That's not a holy promise; that's a business deal.

15. व्यवस्था तो क्रोध उपजाती है और जहां व्यवस्था नहीं वहां उसका टालना भी नहीं।

15. A contract drawn up by a hard-nosed lawyer and with plenty of fine print only makes sure that you will never be able to collect. But if there is no contract in the first place, simply a promise--and God's promise at that--you can't break it.

16. इसी कारण वह विश्वास के द्वारा मिलती है, कि अनुग्रह की रीति पर हो, कि प्रतिज्ञा सब वंश के लिये दृढ़ हो, न कि केवल उसक लिये जो व्यवस्थावाला है, बरन उन के लिये भी जो इब्राहीम के समान विश्वासवाले हैं: वही तो हम सब का पिता है।

16. This is why the fulfillment of God's promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God's promise arrives as pure gift. That's the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father--that's reading the story backwards. He is our faith father.

17. (जैसा लिखा है, कि मैं ने तुझे बहुत सी जातियों का पिता ठहराया है) उस परमशॆवर के साम्हने जिस पर उस ने विश्वास किया और जो मरे हुओं को जिलाता है, और जो बातें हैं ही नहीं, उन का नाम ऐसा लेता है, कि मानो वे हैं।
उत्पत्ति 17:15, यशायाह 48:13

17. We call Abraham 'father' not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, 'I set you up as father of many peoples'? Abraham was first named 'father' and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing.

18. उस ने निराशा में भी आशा रखकर विश्वास किया, इसलिये कि उस वचन के अनुसार कि तेरा वंश ऐसा होगा वह बहुत सी जातियों का पिता हो।
उत्पत्ति 15:5

18. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, 'You're going to have a big family, Abraham!'

19. और वह जो एक सौ वर्ष का था, अपने मरे हुए से शरीर और सारा के गर्भ की मरी हुई की सी दशा जानकर भी विश्वास में निर्बल न हुआ।
उत्पत्ति 17:17

19. Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, 'It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.' Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up.

20. और न अविश्वासी होकर परमेश्वर की प्रतिज्ञा पर संदेह किया, पर विश्वास में दृढ़ होकर परमेश्वर की महिमा की।

20. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God,

21. और निश्चय जाना, कि जिस बात की उस ने प्रतिज्ञा की है, वह उसे पूरी करने को भी सामर्थी है।

21. sure that God would make good on what he had said.

22. इस कारण, यह उसके लिये धार्मिकता गिना गया।
उत्पत्ति 15:6

22. That's why it is said, 'Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.'

23. और यह वचन, कि विश्वास उसके लिये धार्मिकता गिया गया, न केवल उसी के लिये लिखा गया।

23. But it's not just Abraham;

24. बरन हमारे लिये भी जिन के लिये विश्वास धार्मिकता गिना जाएगा, अर्थात् हमारे लिये जो उस पर विश्वास करते हैं, जिस ने हमारे प्रभु यीशु को मरे हुओं में से जिलाया।

24. it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless.

25. वह हमारे अपराधों के लिये पकड़वाया गया, और हमारे धर्मी ठहरने के लिये जिलाया भी गया।।
यशायाह 53:5, यशायाह 53:12

25. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.