| Vers | Kabyle: NT | English: King James Version |
| 1 | A wen-d-iniɣ tideț, nekk iteddun deg ubrid n Lmasiḥ, ur skiddibeɣ ara ; lxaṭer-iw icehhed-d ɣef wayagi s Ṛṛuḥ iqedsen i yi-sedduyen : | I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, |
| 2 | leḥzen d uɣilif zgan deg ul-iw. | That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. |
| 3 | Zemreɣ ad qebleɣ ad țțuneɛleɣ neɣ ad țțuḥeṛṛmeɣ ɣef Lmasiḥ ɣef ddemma n watmaten-iw akk-d lumma-inu ; | For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: |
| 4 | nutni at Isṛail i gextaṛ Sidi Ṛebbi d agdud-is yefka-yasen-d lɛaḍima, yexdem yid-sen leɛqud, yefka-yasen-d ccariɛa d wamek ara t-ɛebden, yerna-yasen-d lemɛahdat. | Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; |
| 5 | Seg-sen i d-ffɣen lejdud-nneɣ i gellan d iqeddacen imezwura n Sidi Ṛebbi, ula d Lmasiḥ seg-sen i d-iffeɣ mi d-ilul s ṣṣifa n wemdan, nețța i gellan sennig kra yellan, d Illu yețwaḥemden i dayem. Amin ! | Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. |
| 6 | Acu ara d-nini ? Sidi Ṛebbi yendem deg wawal-is ? Xaṭi ! Meɛna mačči d wid meṛṛa i d-ilulen seg jeddi-tneɣ Isṛail i gellan n wat Isṛail i gextaṛ Sidi Ṛebbi. | Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: |
| 7 | Daɣen mačči d wid meṛṛa i d-yeǧǧa Sidna Ibṛahim i gellan d arraw-is n tideț, axaṭer Sidi Ṛebbi inna-yas-d : Seg Isḥaq ara d-teffeɣ dderya i k-weɛdeɣ. | Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. |
| 8 | S wakka ihi nezmer ad ini mačči d dderya i d ilulen s lebɣi n wemdan ara ițțusemmin d arraw n Sidi Ṛebbi meɛna anagar wid i d-ilulen s lebɣi n Sidi Ṛebbi akken i t-id-yewɛed. | That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. |
| 9 | Axaṭer atnan imeslayen s wayes i gɛuhed Sidi Ṛebbi : A d-uɣaleɣ aseggas i d-iteddun di lweqt-agi, ?ara a d-tesɛu aqcic. | For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. |
| 10 | Mačči d ayagi kan : arraw n Rbiḥa daɣen i gellan d akniwen, sɛan yiwen n baba-tsen yellan d jeddi-tneɣ Isḥaq. | And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; |
| 11 | Meɛna imi Sidi Ṛebbi ițextiri imdanen mačči ɣef ddemma n lecɣal-nsen meɛna akken yella lebɣi-s d usiwel-ines ; mazal urɛad i d-lulen warraw n Rbiḥa, ur xdimen cceṛ, ur xdimen lxiṛ, mi s-d-yenna Sidi Ṛebbi : Amenzu deg warraw-im | (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) |
| 13 | Akken i gura daɣen deg umkan nniḍen n tira iqedsen : ?emmleɣ Yeɛqub, keṛheɣ Icaw. | As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. |
| 14 | D acu ara d-nini deg wannect-a ? Eɛni Sidi Ṛebbi ixeddem lbaṭel ? D lmuḥal ! | What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. |
| 15 | Axaṭer yenna-yas i Sidna Musa : A d-sserseɣ ṛṛeḥma-inu ɣef win i bɣiɣ, ad ḥunneɣ daɣen ɣef win i bɣiɣ. | For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. |
| 16 | Lbaṛaka n Sidi Ṛebbi ur d-tețțas ara s lefɛayel n wemdan ama yuzzel ama yeqqim meɛna kullec yețțas-ed s ɣuṛ Sidi Ṛebbi i d-yețțaken ṛṛeḥma ines akken yebɣa. | So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. |
| 17 | Anda nniḍen di tira iqedsen Sidi Ṛebbi yenna i Ferɛun agellid n Maṣer : Sbeddeɣ-k d agellid ameqqran iwakken a d-sbeggneɣ tazmert-iw deg-ek, s wakka di ddunit meṛṛa ad issinen belli d nekk i d Illu. | For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. |
| 18 | Akka ihi, Sidi Ṛebbi yesrusu-d ṛṛeḥma-s ɣef win yebɣa, isɣaṛay daɣen ul n win yebɣa. | Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. |
| 19 | Ahat ad yili win ara d-yinin : imi akka i gella lḥal, acu i mazal ițlumu deg-nneɣ ? Anwa i gzemren a t-iɛaṣi ? | Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? |
| 20 | I kečč ay amdan ur nesɛi azal, d acu i tḥesbeḍ iman-ik iwakken aț-țḥasbeḍ Sidi Ṛebbi ? Eɛni tacmuxt ițwameslen s wakal tezmer aț-țini i win i ț-imeslen acuɣer i yi-tmesleḍ s ṣṣifa-yagi ? | Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
| 21 | Win imesslen afexxaṛ yezmer ad ixdem ayen i s-ihwan s wakal ; seg wakal-nni yezmer ad imsel tacmuxt izewqen neɣ tin i sseqdacen kull ass. | Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
| 22 | Eɛni Sidi Ṛebbi ur yezmir ara a d-ibeggen urrif-is akk-d tezmert-is ? Iɣaḍ-ik lḥal ma yella yeṣber s ṣṣber ameqqran i wid yuklalen urrif-is yerna teddun ɣer nnger ? | What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: |
| 23 | Deg wannect-agi, Sidi Ṛebbi yebɣa a d-isbeggen acḥal meqqṛet tmanegt-is i nukni i ɣef iḥunn, i ghegga si zik iwakken a nili yid-es di tmanegt-is ; | And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, |
| 24 | nukni iwumi i d-yessawel Sidi Ṛebbi mačči seg wat Isṛail kan, meɛna ula si ger leǧnas nniḍen ; | Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? |
| 25 | akken i t-id-yenna Sidi Ṛebbi di tektabt n nnbi Hucaɛ : Lǧens-nni ur nelli ara d agdud-iw a s-semmiɣ agdud-iw, win akken ur nețwaḥemmel ara a s-semmiɣ win eɛzizen fell-i. | As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. |
| 26 | Anda akken i sen-qqaṛen : « Ur tellim ara d agdud n Sidi Ṛebbi», dinna ara țțusemmin d arraw n Sidi Ṛebbi yeddren. | And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. |
| 27 | Si lǧiha-s, nnbi Iceɛya icar-ed ɣef wayen yeɛnan agdud n wat Isṛail : ?as ad ketṛen wat Isṛail am ṛṛmel ɣef yiri n lebḥeṛ, kra deg-sen kan ara yețțuselken. | Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: |
| 28 | Axaṭer Sidi Ṛebbi ur ițɛeṭṭil ara ad ixdem di ddunit ayen akken i d-yenna deg wawal-is. | For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. |
| 29 | Yura di tira iqedsen : Lemmer Sidi Ṛebbi Bab n tezmert ur aɣ-d yeǧǧi ara kra seg wegdud-nneɣ, tili nuɣal am temdint n Sudum, aț-țeḍru yid-nneɣ am temdint n Gumuṛ inegren. Ayagi yenna-t-id nnbi Iceɛya uqbel a d-yedṛu. | And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. |
| 30 | D acu ara d-nini ihi ? Igduden nniḍen ur nețnadi ara ɣef lḥeqq uɣalen d iḥeqqiyen zdat Sidi Ṛebbi, uɣalen d iḥeqqiyen imi umnen yis. | What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. |
| 31 | Ma d at Isṛail yețnadin ad uɣalen d iḥeqqiyen s ccariɛa, ur wwiḍen ara ɣer lmeqṣud-nsen s ccariɛa. | But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
| 32 | Acuɣer ? Axaṭer ur qellben ara ad ɛeǧben i Sidi Ṛebbi s liman, meɛna nutni ɣilen ad uɣalen d iḥeqqiyen s lefɛayel-nsen. Mmugren-d adɣaɣ i sen-yellan d ugur, isseɣli-ten. | Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; |
| 33 | Am akken yura di tektabt iqedsen : Atan ad sserseɣ ɣef wedrar n Siyun adɣaɣ, d adɣaɣ i ɣef yekkat wugur, d azṛu yesseɣlayen, meɛna win yumnen yis weṛǧin ad yenneḥcam. | As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. |
| 12 | It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. |