1 Corinthians 4
1 So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries.
Ayee nga mundu ywatubalanga twenga, kati amanda ba Kristo ni mawakili ba siri ya kweli ya Nnongo.
2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
Katika lee, chakipalikwa kwa uwakili ni kwamba bawe ba kutumainiya.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I do not even judge my own self.
Lakini kwango nenga ni kilebe kichunu muno kuwa nendahukumilwa ni mwenga au hukumu ya bandu, kwa kuwa naihukumu kwaa nenga na mwene.
4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
Naihukumu kwaa nenga na mwene, ayee ibile kwaa na mana kuwa nenga na mwene haki. Ila Ngwana nga anihukumuye.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Kwa eyo, kana muipale hukumu nnani ya lolote kabla ya muda, kabla ya kuisa Ngwana. Alowa kubaleta mu'bweya makowe gaabile mu'libendo ni kuipunua kusudi ya mwoyo. Nga kila yumo apokya sifa yake kwa Nnongo.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
Nambeambe, ainja ni alombo bango, nenga namwene na Apolo niitumi kanuni yee kwa ajili yinu, ili kuoma kwitu mwaweza kuipunza maana ya baya, “Uyende kwaa zaidi ya yaiandikilwe.” Ayee nga kuwa ntopo yumo winu ywaipunia nnani ya ywenge.
7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Maana ywa nyai ywabona tofauti nkati yinu ni ywenge. Ni namani chaubile nacho chaukipokya bure? Kati uyomwa pokya bure kwa namani mwaipunya kati mwapanga kwaa nyoo?
8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
Tayari mubile ni yoti mpala! Tayari mwabile ni utajiri! Mtumbwa tawala ni kwamba mwamiliki zaidi yitu twenga! Kweli, napala umiliki mwema ili kwamba tumiliki pamope ni mwenga.
9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Kwa eyo nawasa Nnongo atubekite twenga twa mitume kati kutubonesha wa mwisho mu'mistari ya maandamano ni kati bandu bahukumilwe ku'waa. Twabile kati tamasha kwa ulimwengu, kwa malaika ni kwa anadamu.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
Twenga twaalalo kwa ajili ya Kristo, lakini mwenga mwa mubile ni hekima mu'Kristo. Tu anyonge, lakini mwenga mwabile ni ngupu. Mwaheshimilwa, lakini twenga twadharauliwa.
11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
Hata saa ino twabile ni njala ni kiu, tubile kwaa ni ngobo, tubile ni mapigo, ni kae ntopo makazi.
12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
Twapanga kazi kwa bidii, kwa maboko yitu wene. Mana tudharaulilwe, twabariki. Muda tubile ni mateso, tugapumiliea.
13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Mana tutukanganwe, tugarudishe kwa upole. Tubile, ni bado twabalangilwa kuwa kati tukanilwa ni dunia ni uchapu kwa makowe gote.
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Niandika kwaa makowe aga kuaaibisha mwenga, lakini kuarudi mwenga kati bana bango waniwapendile.
15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
Hata kati mwabile ni baalimu komi elfu mu'Kristo mwabile kwaa ni tate baingi. Kwa kuwa nabile tate yinu mu'Yesu Kristo petya injili.
16 I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Naasihi munigeye nenga.
17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
Ayee nga sababu nimtumile kwinu Timotheo, mpendwa wango ni mwana mwaminifu mu'Ngwana. Alowa kuakombokya ndela yango mu'Kristo, kati yaniapundisha kila mahali na kila likanisa.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
Nambeambe baadhi yinu kabajisifu, batenda kati nalowa isa kwaa kwinu.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
Lakini nendaisa kwinu kitambo, kati Ngwana atipenda. Nga nalowa kuitanga maneno yabe kwaa balo bajisifu, lakini nalowa kuibona ngupu yabe.
20 For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
Kwa kuwa upwalume wa Nnongo ubile kwaa mu'maneno ila katika ngupu.
21 What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
mupala namani? Niise kwinu ni fimbo au kwa upendo ni katika roho ya upole?
