2 Akorinto 5
1 Popeza tikudziwa kuti ngati msasa wa dziko lapansi umene tikukhalamo uwonongeka, tili ndi nyumba yochokera kwa Mulungu, nyumba yamuyaya yakumwamba, osati yomangidwa ndi manja a anthu. (aiōnios g166)
For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal. (aiōnios g166)
2 Pakali pano tibuwula, ndi kulakalaka kuvala nyumba yathu ya kumwambayo,
For in this one we sigh, because we long to put on over it our dwelling which comes from Heaven--
3 chifukwa tikavala, sitidzapezekanso amaliseche.
if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.
4 Pamene tili mu msasa uno, timalemedwa ndipo timabuwula, chifukwa sitifuna kukhala amaliseche koma ovala nyumba yathu ya kumwamba, kuti chimene chili chakufa chimezedwe ndi moyo.
Yes, we who are in this tent certainly do sigh under our burdens, for we do not wish to lay aside that with which we are now clothed, but to put on more, so that our mortality may be absorbed in Life.
5 Tsono ndi Mulungu amene anatikonzeratu ife kuti tilandire zimenezi. Iye anatipatsa Mzimu ngati chikole, kutsimikizira zimene zikubwera.
And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.
6 Nʼchifukwa chake nthawi zonse timalimba mtima, ndipo timadziwa kuti pamene tikukhala mʼthupi, ndiye kuti tili kutali ndi Ambuye.
We have therefore a cheerful confidence. We know that while we are at home in the body we are banished from the Lord;
7 Ife timakhala mwachikhulupiriro, osati mwa zooneka ndi maso.
for we are living a life of faith, and not one of sight.
8 Inde, ife tikulimba mtima, ndipo tikanakonda kulekana nalo thupi lathu ndi kukhala ndi Ambuye.
So we have a cheerful confidence, and we anticipate with greater delight being banished from the body and going home to the Lord.
9 Choncho timayesetsa kukondweretsa Ambuye, ngakhale tikhale mʼthupi, kapena tichokemo.
And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.
10 Pakuti tonsefe tiyenera kukaonekera pa mpando woweruza wa Khristu, kuti aliyense wa ife akalandire zomuyenera molingana ndi zimene anachita ali mʼthupi; zabwino kapena zoyipa.
For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.
11 Tsono popeza tikudziwa tanthauzo la kuopa Ambuye, ife timayesetsa kukopa anthu. Mulungu amatidziwa bwino lomwe, ndipo tikukhulupirira kuti inunso mumatidziwa bwino mʼmitima mwanu.
Therefore, because we realize how greatly the Lord is to be feared, we are endeavouring to win men over, and God recognizes what our motives are, and I hope that you, in your hearts, recognize them too.
12 Sitikudzichitiranso tokha umboni kwa inu, koma tikukupatsani mwayi oti muzitinyadira. Tikufuna kuti muwayankhe amene amanyadira zinthu zooneka ndi maso osati zimene zili mu mtima.
We are not again commending ourselves to your favour, but are furnishing you with a ground of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have a reply ready for those with whom superficial appearances are everything and sincerity of heart counts for nothing.
13 Ngati ndife amisala, monga amanenera ena, nʼchifukwa chofuna kuti Mulungu alemekezedwe. Ngati si ife amisala, nʼkuti inu muthandizike.
For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.
14 Pakuti chikondi cha Khristu ndicho chimatikakamiza, chifukwa tikutsimikiza kuti mmodzi anafera anthu onse, kotero kuti anthu onse anafanso.
For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,
15 Ndipo Iye anafera anthu onse kuti amene ali ndi moyo, asakhale ndi moyo wofuna kudzikondweretsa okha, koma azikondweretsa amene anawafera naukitsidwa chifukwa cha iwowo.
and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
16 Choncho, kuyambira tsopano mpaka mʼtsogolo ife sitiganizirapo za munthu aliyense monga mwanzeru za umunthu, ngakhale kuti poyamba tinkaganiza za Khristu mʼnjira imeneyi, koma tsopano sititeronso.
Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.
17 Nʼchifukwa chake, ngati munthu aliyense ali mwa Khristu, ndi wolengedwa kwatsopano; zinthu zakale zapita taonani, zakhala zatsopano.
So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.
18 Zonsezi zichokera kwa Mulungu amene anatiyanjanitsa ndi Iye mwini kudzera mwa Khristu ndipo anatipatsa ife utumiki wa chiyanjanitso.
And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the ministry of reconciliation.
19 Mulungu ankayanjanitsa dziko lapansi kwa Iye mwini kudzera mwa Khristu, osawerengera anthu monga mwa zochimwa zawo. Ndipo watisungitsa ife uthenga uwu wa chiyanjanitso.
We are to tell how God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not charging men's transgressions to their account, and that He has entrusted to us the Message of this reconciliation.
20 Choncho ife ndi akazembe a Khristu, monga ngati Mulungu akudandaulira anthu kudzera mwa ife. Ife tikukupemphani inu mʼmalo mwa Khristu kuti, yanjanitsidwani ndi Mulungu.
On Christ's behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were, making entreaty through our lips: we, on Christ's behalf, beseech men to be reconciled to God.
21 Chifukwa cha ife, Mulungu anasandutsa wopanda tchimoyo kukhala tchimo, kuti mwa Iye ife tikakhale chilungamo cha Mulungu.
He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.
