Romawa 3
1 Ahi ngye ha fifikon wa Bayahude he niwu? Naki ahi ngye hi mah yo gji?
What, then, is the preeminence of the Jew? Or what, the profit of his circumcision?
2 Akwai muhimanci ba ninkon bari. Ni mumla de ana Yahudawa irji bu tre ni bawu.
Much, every way: —First, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3 Inde mbru Yahudawa bana kpanyime ni njanji na fa? Wa ba na kpa njani na ani zu ndindi ndu Irji?
For what? If some distrusted, shall their distrust make, the trust of God, void?
4 Ana he naki ma na, maimako naki, Irji ka kma ti u njanji, na ndji ba wawu ba bi tiche, na ndji ba han hla don duba tsro ndi wu u ndindi ni mi tre me la wu kpaka ni toh wa banji u hi ni shishi tron.
Far be it! But let, God, prove to be, true, albeit, every man, be false! Even as it is written—That thou mightest be declared righteous in thy words, and overcome when thou art in judgment.
5 Ama inde meme bu a tsro ndindi Irji, naki ki tre ngye? ki ya tre ndi Irji hi meme nda nji nfu ma ni tu mbu? (Misi ti ni sen nyu u ndji).
But, if, our unrighteousness, commendeth, God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Surely, not unrighteous, is God who visiteth with his anger? After the manner of men, I am speaking, —
6 Ana taba he naki na. Naki Irji ni tron gbugbu'a ni he?
Far be it! Else how shall God judge the world?
7 Inde njanji u Irji ni ti gbugbu ce mu ani kara ninkon ni nyu'u, angye sa mi hai ni tron na'u lah tre?
But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?
8 Angye sa kina tre, ki yba shishi, ndi tre, bari ba krie nda tre, du ta tie meme, ndi du ndindi ye? Hukunci ba a ndindima.
And why not, according as we are injuriously charged, [and] according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence is, just.
9 Angye naki, ki no tumbu sen nyu'u? Ana he naki na don ki guchi tre Yahuda baba Hllinawa ye ndi tre ndi wawu mbawu ba he ni mi lahtre.
What then? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, all under sin;
10 Na ba nha, ba ndji u njanji, iriri na he na.
Even as it is written—there is none righteous, not even one,
11 Ba ndji wa a toh kpie, ba wa'a ni wa Irji.
There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:
12 Wawu mbawu ba kankon don, wawu mbawu ba kma tibi wa bana he ni anfani na. Ba wa ani tie ndu ndindima, a'an iriri na he na.
All, have turned aside, together, have become useless, There is none that doeth kindness, not so much as one:
13 Gbugbran mba he ni ho na be, Ilbe mba a ban lilo, Itso wan a he ni mi lbe mba.
A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,
14 Inyu mba a shu ni la'ah ni ri gberjerje me.
Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,
15 Izah mba ni tsutsu gbagbla ni ka yi hle
Swift, are their feet to shed blood;
16 Inkon mba ahi yah ni tie meme.
Destruction and misery, are in their ways,
17 Ndji biyi bana toh nkon sun u si na.
And, the way of peace, have they not known:
18 Bana he ni klu sissri Irji ni shishi mba na.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Naki ki toh ndi du kpie wa itron a tre, itro ani tre ni bawu wa ba he ni mi ma, don duba ka iyu mba wawu, naki gbungblu a wawu'u ka no amsa ni shishi Irji.
Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
20 Naki ni shishi ba ndji wa ba kpa chuwo ni tu ndu tron. Nitu tron, toh lah tre aye.
Inasmuch as, by works of law, shall no flesh be declared righteous before him, —through law, in fact, is discovery of sin.
21 Naki zizan'a nitu tron ba tsro toh njanji Irji wa itron ni annabawa basi hla.
But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God hath been manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets, —
22 Naki ndindi Irji ahi njanji nimi Yesu Almasihu hi ni biwa ba kpa nyime ni njanji. Naki, kakan na he na.
A righteousness of God, through faith in [Jesus] Christ, unto all that have faith; for there is no distinction, —
23 Naki, wawu'u mbawu ba lah tre, bana ya ka hi ni daraja Irji,
For, all, have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
24 ni ndindima ba kpa ta chuwo ni tu kpachuwo wa'a he ni mi Yesu Almasihu.
Being declared righteous freely by his favour through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: —
25 Aman Irji a ban Yesu Almasihu no wa ahi hadaya u kpachuwo u njanji nimi iyi ma. A ban Almasihu na nimatsayi tabbacin hukunci ma, nitu ketarewa lah tre mbu wu kogon'a.
Whom God hath set forth as a propitiatory covering, through faith in his blood, for a showing forth of his righteousness, by reason of the passing-by of the previously committed sins,
26 Nimi vu suron ma, naki i wa yi ati ndu tsro ndindima nimi toh i du kpanyime ni tuma u hukunci, nda tsro wawu hi u kpa konha chuwo saboda, njanji wa ahe nimi Yesu.
In the forbearance of God, —with a view to a showing forth of his righteousness in the present season, that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous him that hath faith in Jesus.
27 To, i wru wo ni san he ni ntsen? Ba chu'u rju. Nitu ngye? Nitu ndu? Aman nitu ndu? Ama nitu njanji.
Where, then, the boasting! It is excluded. Through what kind of law? Of works? Nay! but through a law of faith:
28 Nakima kikle tre a ndi ba kpa ndji chuwo, ana he nitu ndu tron na.
For we reckon that a man is to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.
29 Ko naki Irji ahi Irji Yahudawa ni kankrji? Ana Irji bi kora ngame na? i ahi bi kora ngame.
Or, [is God] the God, of Jews only, and not of the nations also? Yea! of the nations also: —
30 Nakima inde gbigbi ahi Irji riri, ani kpa biwa ba yo nji ni bawu chuwo nitu njani.
If, at all events, God is one, who will declare righteous—the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through their faith.
31 Ki ka tron hlega nitu njanji? Ana taba he nakima na, nakima kisi hu gon tro kena.
Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!
