Romans 9
1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Mambu ndituba mu Klisto madi makiedika ayi ndikadi vuna. Mayindu mama ma ntima meti kuthelimina kimbangi mu Pheve Yinlongo:
2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
ti kiadi kingolo kidi yama ayi phasi yika yilendi suka ko yidi yama mu ntima.
3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
Bila minu veka nditomba singu kuidi Nzambi ayi vambana ayi Klisto mu diambu di bakhomba ziama, bibutu biama bi dikanda.
4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
Bawu badi basi Iseli, bobo bakitulu bana bandi ayi bavuidi nkembo, zinguizani, dikaba di tambula Mina; tsambudulu yi kiedika ayi zitsila;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. (aiōn g165)
bawu bavuidi bakulu. Mu kimutu, Klisto wutotukila mu bawu: Niandi wunyadila bima bioso. Nzambi niandi wunsakumunanga mu zithangu zioso. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Bika sia ti mambu ma Nzambi mabedoso bila baboso batotukila mu Iseli basiko basi Iseli.
7 And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.
Bobuawu, babo badi mu nkuna Abalahami basi ko bana bandi. Bila Nzambi wukamba Abalahami: Mu Isaki kaka muela totukila nkunꞌaku.
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.
Bu dinsundula ti: bika sia ti bana bobo babutukila mu kinsuni bawu bana ba Nzambi, vayi bobo babutukila mu tsila bawu bantangulungu bana ba nkuna.
9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.
Bila mambu mama madi mambu ma tsila: Mu tsungi yayi ndiela kuiza ayi Sala wela buta muana wu bakala.
10 And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac —
Bika sia ti mambu momo kaka vayi buawu bobo mu Lebeka, mutu wowo wubutulu bitsimba kuidi dise dimosi, nkulu eto Isaki.
11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
Bila tuamina bitsimba bibutuka ayi buna bavengi ko kadi diambu dimosi di mboti voti di mbimbi mu diambu di dedikisa tsobodolo yi Nzambi; bika sia ti mu diambu di mavanga vayi mu diambu di mutu wowo wutela;
12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.
niandi bakamba ti: nleki wela yadila nkulutu.
13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.
Banga bu disonimina: minu ndizola Yakobi ayi ndilenda Esawu.
14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.
Buna mbi tutuba e? Nzambi kasi wusonga ko e? Nana buawu ko.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Bila niandi wukamba Moyize: Minu ndiela monina kiadi woso mutu thidi mona kiadi. Ayi ndiela vangila mamboti kuidi woso thidi vangila mamboti.
16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.
Momo masi ko mu diambu di luzolo lu mutu voti mu diambu di zingolo zi mutu vayi madi mu diambu di Nzambi wummonanga batu kiadi.
17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.
Bila mu masonoko Nzambi wukamba Falawo ti: Mu bila kioki minu nditotula muingi ndimonisa lulendo luama mu ngeyo; muingi dizina diama diyamukusu va ntoto wumvimba.
18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
Diawu niandi weti mona kiadi woso mutu katidi mona kiadi ayi weta kitula mfua matu woso mutu wu kazodidi.
19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
Buna ngeyo wela kukhamba: bila mbi kakidi tubidilanga e? Bila nani wulenda kakidila luzolo luandi e?
20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
Mutu, ngeyo widi nani mu findana ziphaka ayi Nzambi e? Kima kivangu kilenda tuba kuidi mutu wuvanga kiawu ti: “Bila mbiwuphangila buabu e?”
21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
Mbumbi kasi ko minsua mu vanga mu tuma tumosi nzungu yi nzitusu ayi yinkaka yikambulu nzitusu e?
22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
Buna mbi wulenda tuba enati Nzambi, bu kazola monisa nganzi andi ayi monisa lulendo luandi, wuvibidila mu thangu yinda zinzungu zituma zi nganzi zikubuku mu bivusu e?
23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
Bosi mbi diaka wulenda tuba enati Nzamni wuvanga buawu mu diambu di monisa kimvuama ki nkemboꞌandi mu zinzungu zituma zi kiadi zikakubika tona thama mu diambu di nkembo e?
24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
Bila beto katela, bika sia ti muidi Bayuda kaka vayi ayi mu Bapakanu.
25 As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved.
Banga bu katubila mu nkanda Oze: Bobo basia ba batu bama ko, ndiela ku batedila “batu bama” Nketo wowo wusia ba kiluzolo kiama ko, ndiela kuntedila kiluzolo.
26 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
Va buangu kioki baba kambila ti: “beno luisi batu bama ko” vana bela ku batedila: “bana ba Nzambi yi moyo.”
27 And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
Ezayi wutuba mu diambu di Iseli ti: Enati thalu yi bana ba Iseli yilenda dedakana banga nzielo yi mbu, ndambu yela siala yawu kaka yela vuka.
28 For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.
Bila mu nsualu ayi mu bufuana Pfumu kela zengila mambu va ntoto.
29 And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Banga Ezayi bu katuama tuba: Enati Pfumu yi minkangu mi masodi kasia kutubikila ndambu wu nkuna wu batu ko, nganu tudedakana banga basi Sodoma; nganu tuba banga basi Ngomola.
30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
A diambu mbi tutuba e? Bapakanu, bankambu kuawu landakananga busonga babakudi busonga; busonga bobo buntotukilanga mu minu.
31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
Vayi Iseli bu kalandakana Mina mu diambu di ba wusonga kasia tula ku Mina beni ko.
32 Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;
Bila mbi e? Bila Iseli kasia kumilandikinina ko mu minu vayi mu mavanga. Babumina thutu mu ditadi,
33 As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
banga bu masonimina: Tala, minu thudidi ditadi mu Sioni ditadi di mbumina batu thutu ayi ditadi dinneni di mbuisa batu;
