Gewilde Bybelverse vanaf Rōma 4

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Āe, i titiro ia ki te kupu whakaari a te Atua, kīhai ia i ruarua i runga i te whakapono kore, engari, ka kaha tonu tōna whakapono, me te whakakorōria ki te Atua. Ū tonu hoki tōna whakaaro e taea e ia te mea tāna i kōrero ai.

ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia, “Kua waiho koe e ahau hei matua ki ngā iwi maha,” he matua i te aroaro o tāna i whakapono ai, arā o te Atua, e whakaora nei i ngā tūpāpaku, e karanga nei i ngā mea kua kāhore me te mea kei konei nei anō.

I tukua nei mō ō tātou hē, i whakaarahia mō tātou kia whakatikaia.

Ahakoa kāhore he rawa, ū tonu tōna mānakonako ki a ia, kia meinga ai ia hei matua mō ngā iwi maha, pērā me te mea i kōrerotia, “Ka pēnei tāu whānau.”

Koia i nā rototia ai i te whakapono, kia waiho ai mā te aroha noa; kia ū ai te kupu whakaari ki te whānau katoa; ehara i te mea ki tō te ture anake, engari, ki tō te whakapono anō o Āperahama, ko ia nei hoki te matua o tātou katoa

I kī ai ia: “Ka hari te hunga kua oti ā rātou mahi tutū te muru, ō rātou hara te hīpoki! Ka hari te tangata e kore nei e whakairia e te Ariki he hara ki a ia.”

E pēhea ana oti tā te karaipiture? “I whakapono a Āperahama ki te Atua, ā, whakairia ana hei tika mōna.”