1 Jo-Thesalonika 4
1 Mogik, jowetewa, ne wapuonjou kaka onego udag malongʼo ne Nyasaye, mana kaka ngimau chalo sani. To koro wakwayou kendo wajiwou kuom Ruoth Yesu mondo umed timo kamano moloyo.
Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.
2 Nikech ungʼeyo puonj mane wamiyou kuom teko mar Ruoth Yesu.
For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3 En dwaro Nyasaye mondo ubed jomaler. Nyasaye dwaro ni ubed mabor gi timbe mag terruok
For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;
4 to bende ngʼato ka ngʼato nyaka puonjre rito ringre e yo maler kendo malongʼo,
and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor;
5 ma ok oyie mondo ringre oowre gi gombo mathoth kaka jopiny makia Nyasaye timo.
and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:
6 To kuom wachni, ngʼato kik tim ni wadgi marach kata wuonde. Ruoth biro kumo joma timo timbe ma kamago mana kaka ne wasenyisou kendo siemou.
and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.
7 Nimar Nyasaye ne ok oluongowa mondo wadag e ngima mar dwanyruok, to ne oluongowa mondo wadag e ngima maler.
For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.
8 Omiyo ngʼato angʼata motamore winjo puonjni ok otamore winjo dhano, to otamore winjo Nyasaye owuon mamiyou Roho Maler.
He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.
9 To kuom wach hera ma jowete kuom Kristo onego oherrego to ok wane tiende ndikonue, nikech un uwegi Nyasaye osepuonjou mondo uherru ngʼato gi ngʼato.
Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 To kuom adiera uhero jowete duto man e miech Makedonia duto. Kata kamano wakwayou, jowetewa, mondo umed timo kamano moloyo mano.
Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:
11 Dwaro maduongʼ mar ngimau onego obed ni mondo udag e ngima mokwe, ka urango mana tijeu kende, kendo kutiyo matek gi lwetu mana kaka ne wachikou,
and that ye strive to be quiet, and to attend to your own affairs; and that ye labor with your own hands; as we directed you;
12 mondo kit ngimau mapile oywa chuny joma pok oyie mi gimiu luor, kendo kik uket genou kuom ngʼato angʼata.
and that ye walk becomingly towards those without; and that ye be dependent on no man.
13 Jowetewa, ok wadwar mondo ubed ka ukia gima timore ne joma osetho, kata mondo ubed gi kuyo ka joma moko, maonge gi geno.
And, I wish you to know, my brethren, that ye should not mourn over them who have fallen asleep, like other people who have no hope.
14 Wayie ni Yesu notho mochier oa kuom joma otho, omiyo wayie ni Nyasaye biro chiero jomo oyie duto mosetho kaachiel kode.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.
15 Kaluwore gi wach Ruoth owuon, wanyisou ni wan ma Ruoth noyudwa ka pod wangima chiengʼ ma nobie, ok wanakwong dhi kapok okaw joma osetho.
And this we say to you, by the word of our Lord, that we who may survive and be alive, at the coming of our Lord, shall not precede them who have slept.
16 Nikech Ruoth owuon nolor koa e polo, mi nogol chik gi dwol maduongʼ, ka malaika maduongʼ kok, kendo ka turumbete mar Nyasaye ywak matek; eka joma nosetho kani kuom Kristo nochier mokwongo.
Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;
17 Bangʼ mano, wan ma pod wadongʼ ka wangima noyudhwa kaachiel kodgi mi terwa malo e boche polo mondo warom gi Ruoth e polo. Omiyo wanabed gi Ruoth nyaka chiengʼ.
and then, we who survive and are alive shall be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with our Lord.
18 Emomiyo jiwreuru gi wechegi.
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
