1 Teselonikawa 2
1 Biyi ni tu-mbi bi toh, mmri vayi, ndi ye mbu ni yi ana he megen na.
FOR ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain.
2 Bi toh ndi ni logon mu ki tie ya ni tie shan kpukpo meh ni-gbuh Filipi. Ki krï mgbamgba nitu Irji mbu ni hla ni yiwu tre Irji'a nimi zren mbu'a.
But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.
3 Ikpa tie ndu mbu-a ana rji ni nkoh memme na, ndana rji ni irji-u kpa na, nda na rji ni nkoh iche na.
And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;
4 Naki, Irji kpa nyeme ndi dun kita mba ki nji tre Ma-a, u ki vu'u tre. Kina tre'u dun ki kusi dri-ndji na, ama don ki kpa dri Irji kusi. Ahi wawuyi a toh mi dri mbu.
but as we have been approved of God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.
5 Kita kina vú tre bla ndi dun ki kpa suron ba ndji kusi na, na wa bi toh-a, kina tie dun ki kpa kpe wa ana umbu na, u Irji si ya mi dri mbu.
For neither at any time used we insinuating language, as ye know, nor a pretext for covetousness; God is witness:
6 U kita kina wa kpa ninkon rji ni ba ndji na, ko rji ni yi ko rji ni bari nkan na. Kita kina fe inton na bi tie ndu Kristi na.
not seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, though we might have been burdensome, as apostles of Christ.
7 Kita ki si hu yi srensren me ni mi mbi na-iyi ni ywre mmri bi nne ma dun kpa suron mba kusi.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants.
8 Ni nkoh kii, ki ka suron mbu yo ni yi. Ki kpa nyeme dun ki kpa ga ni yi ana tre Irji megen na hra ni mi dri mbu. U ki nji yi mgbamgba me nimi suron mbu.
So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.
9 Bi kpa ri-mre, mri vayi, indu wa ki tie'a. Ni chu mba ni-rji kina kuson na ndi si ta tie ndu don dun yi ni ka suron ko iri-mbi kusi na. Ni nton u gon, wa kisi bla tre Irji ni yiwu.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 Biyi bi toh ni shishi mbi, u Irji ngame, wa ki sòn bi, ni nji tre Irji, ni na tie memme na, ni vu tu mbu nji ni yi bi wa bi kpa tre Irji'a.
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and faultlessly we conducted ourselves among you that believe:
11 Ahe naki bi yi me bi toh na wa ki si tie ni konha mbi na wa itie ni si tie ni mrli ma,
as ye know how we treated every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you,
12 ki si bre yi ndi si nno yi tre-u sen ngble ndi si me yi dun yi zren bi ni Irji, Wawu mba yo yi rii nimi koh ma ni shulu.
that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.
13 Nitu wa yi, kita ngame kisi ngiri ni Irji chachu. U ni nton wa bi kpa rji nita itre Irji wa-ndi bi kpa wo, bi na kpa'u tie na'a tre indji na. U, bi kpa'u nji na wa ahe, itre Irji'a. Ahi tre'a si tie-ndu ngame nimi mbi biwa bi kpa tre'a.
For this cause do we also give thanks to God unceasingly, because when ye received the word reported by us from God, ye received it not as the word of man, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which worketh also effectually in you that believe.
14 U biyi, mri vayi, bi tie na kisi tie ni tre Irji ni Judiya ni Kristi Yesu. Bi tie ya na bi tie ndu Irji ni wo ndji gbu mbi, na wa ba tie ni yiwu ni gbu Yahudawa-a.
For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for ye suffered the same things also yourselves from your own countrymen, as they too have of the Jews;
15 Ahi ba Yahudawa-a ba Bachi Yesu ni bi tie ndu Irji. Ahi ba Yahudawa-a ba zu ta rju. Ba na kpa suron Irji kusi na. Naki ba kpa nfu ni konha.
who both murdered the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are in opposition to all mankind;
16 Ba zu ta dun ta na tre ni bi wa ba na toh Irji na. Ba si tie naki don dun ba ka lla tre mba kari. Ni kle'a infu Irji ni grji ni tumba.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their iniquities always: but wrath is coming upon them to the extremity.
17 Mri ya ba kpa ta ga tie nkah, ni ntoh fieme, ni kpa ana ni dri na. Ki yo suron ndi si wa ndu ki toh shishi mbi.
But we, brethren, bereaved of you for a short moment, in person, not in heart, have more abundantly longed to see your face with great desire.
18 Ki wa ndu ki ndi ye niyi, ime, Bulus, nkpu ri u ngari, u brji zu ta.
Therefore we wished to have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan prevented us.
19 U yo suron mbu hi nge ni ko shishi, ko ngiri mbu, ko wru wo san mbu ni shishi Bachi mbu Yesu ni wa a kma ye'a? Ndi a biyi yi ni mbru ndji?
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 U biyi yi bi nzuh nde mbu ni ngiri mbu.
For ye are our glory and joy.
