Romans 3
1 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Sena mulayeyengeti Bayuda bapita bantu ba mishobo naimbi? Ninga kupalulwa kukute pindu cini?
2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
Pali bwinishi bunene pakuba Muyuda, pakwinga pakutanguna Lesa walapa Bayuda maswi akendi kwambeti basungenga.
3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
Nomba nabambi pakati pabo nkabalashomeka, sena kubula lushomo kwabo ngakupesheti Lesa abule kushomeka?
4 Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
Sobwe, ico nkacela kwinshika! Lesa abe wakubinga, necikabeti bantu bonse nibandemishibili. Mbuli Mabala ncakute kwambeti, “Amwe Lesa, lekani bantu bonse benshibeti mukute kwamba cakubinga, Kayi cindi conse mukute kucaniketi muliya kampenda pakukombolosha.”
5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
Lino na kwipa kwetu kulaleshengeti Lesa walulama, ngatwambeconi? Sena ngatwambeti Lesa nkalulama pakutupa cisubulo? Ndambanga mbuli bantu nabambi ncobakute kwamba.
6 Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?
Sobwe, Lesa nalabula kuba walulama, sena nalakombolosheconi bantu bonse bapacishi capanshi?
7 However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
Nabambi ngabambeti, “Nakubepa kwakame kulaleshenga patuba kushomeka kwa Lesa ne kukonempesha bulemeneno bwakendi, nomba ngaung'ombolosheconi eti nkute bwipishi?”
8 Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
Lino nicani ncotwelela kwambileti “katwinsani byaipa kwambeti byaina biboneke?” Cakubinga bantu nabambi balatutukananga pakwambeti, tulamba makani awa. Bantu aba Lesa nakabape cisubulo celela.
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
Nomba lino sena afwe Bayuda twapita bantu ba mishobo naimbi? Sobwe! Tulapandululu kendi kwambeti bonse balepisha, Bayuda pamo ne bantu ba mishobo naimbi.
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Pakwinga Mabala akute kwambeti, “Paliya muntu walulama, sobwe naba umo kuliya.
11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
Kuliya muntu ukute kunyumfwishisha, kuliyawa muntu lalangaulunga Lesa.
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Bantu bonse basula Lesa, kayi bonse basendama, paliya shikwinsa byaina, sobwe kuliya naba umo.
13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Kwamba kwabo nikwakubepa, kayi kukute kushinisha. Milaka yabo ikute kwamba byakubepa kayi mumilomo yabo mukute kufuma maswi aipa aipa eti mata anjoka.
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Mumilomo mwabo mwesula mashingo, mukute kufuma maswi aipa.
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Nibantu bakute kufwambana kulinga ne kushina banabo.
16 ruin and misery lie in their wake,
Bakute kononga ne kupensha bantu kulikonse nkobalayi,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
kayi nkabacinshi kwikala mulumuno.
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Nkabakute kutina Lesa nambi pang'ana sobwe.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
“Lino tucinshi kwambeti byonse byambwa mu Milawo ya Lesa, bikute kwamba pali abo balakonkelenga Milawo kwambeti bantu bonse pa cishi capanshi bakabule pakuyubila milandu Lesa njeshakabape.
20 Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Pakwinga kuliyawa muntu Lesa ngwakute kubona walulama pacebo ca kukonkela Milawo. Mulawo ukute kutulesheti bantu bonse balepisha.”
21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
Nomba lino nshila ilaboneke yakucaninamo bululami pamenso a Lesa, nteyo yakukonkela Milawo sobwe. Milawo iyo niya Mose ne bashinshimi bakute kuyinshila bukamboni.
22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
Nshila bantu njobakute kucaninamo bululami pamenso a Lesa nikushoma Yesu Klistu. Lesa eukute kululamika bantu bashoma Yesu Klistu, pakwinga kuliya bupusano pakati pa bantu bonse.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Bantu bonse balepisha, kayi balalilwa kushika ku bulemeneno bwa Lesa.
24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Nsombi kwinamoyo kwakendi Lesa kwabulyo, bantu balulamikwa kupitila muli Klistu Yesu uyo walabalubula.
25 God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Lesa walamubengeti abe mulumbo kwambeti lufu lwakendi, lulesheti Lesa walulama uliyawa kubapa cisubulo abo balepisha mucindi cakunyuma
26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
pacebo cakuba ne moyonteka. Nomba pacindi cino Lesa walabenga Yesu kwambeti aboneshe kululama kwakendi, ne kwambeti benshibeti nendi walulama, kayi uliyense washoma Yesu ukute kuba walulama pamenso a Lesa.
27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
Nomba sena lino muntu ngolitukumuna? Sobwe, nkela kulitukumuna. Pacebo cini? Sena nipakukonkela Milawo? Sobwe, nsombi kushoma.
28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Neco lino tulabono kwambeti muntu ukute kuba walulama pamenso a Lesa na lashomo, nteko kukonkela Milawo sobwe.
29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
Sena Lesa ni Lesa wa Bayuda bonka? Sena ntendiye kayi Lesa wa bantu ba mishobo naimbi? Cakubinga endiye Lesa wa bantu ba mishobo naimbi.
30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Lesa ni umo, neco endiye ukute kululamika Bayuda kupitila mulushomo kayi nabo bantu bakunsa bakute kuba balulama kupitila mulushomo.
31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
Sena ici cilambangeti Milawo iliyawa ncito pakwambeti nikupitila mulushomo? Sobwe! Empotulaiyumishinga Milawo.
