1 John 4
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Balingami na ngai, bondimaka te bato nyonso oyo babetaka tolo mpo na koloba ete batondisami na Molimo ya Nzambe; kasi bomeka bango mpo na koyeba soki bazali penza ya Nzambe, pamba te basakoli ebele ya lokuta basili kopanzana na mokili.
2 Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God;
Tala ndenge nini bokoyeba soki bazali na Molimo ya Nzambe: moto nyonso oyo azali kondima ete Yesu-Klisto akomaki moto azali na Molimo ya Nzambe.
3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that [power] of the antichrist, [of] which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world.
Moto nyonso oyo azali kondima Yesu te azali na Molimo ya Nzambe te, kasi azali na molimo ya monguna ya Klisto, oyo boyokaki na tina na ye ete azali koya mpe azali sik’oyo kati na mokili.
4 Ye are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that [is] in you than he that [is] in the world.
Bino, bana na ngai, bozali ya Nzambe mpe bosili kolonga basakoli yango ya lokuta, pamba te Ye oyo azali kati na bino azali na nguya koleka ye oyo azali kati na mokili.
5 They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.
Basakoli ya lokuta bazali ya mokili; balobaka kolanda elobeli ya mokili, mpe mokili eyokaka bango.
6 We are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Biso, tozali ya Nzambe; mpe moto nyonso oyo ayebi Nzambe ayokaka biso. Kasi moto oyo azali ya Nzambe te ayokaka biso te. Ezali ndenge wana nde toyebaka Molimo ya solo mpe molimo ya libunga.
7 Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Balingami na ngai, tolinganaka biso na biso, pamba te Nzambe azali bolingo. Moto nyonso oyo azali na bolingo azali ya Nzambe mpe ayebi Nzambe.
8 He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
Moto oyo azangi bolingo ayebi Nzambe te, pamba te Nzambe azali bolingo.
9 Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Botala ndenge nini Nzambe atalisaki biso bolingo na Ye: atindaki Mwana na Ye se moko kati na mokili mpo ete tozala na bomoi ya solo na nzela na Ye.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
Bolingo yango emonani na likambo oyo: ezali biso te bato tolingaki Nzambe, kasi Ye nde alingaki biso mpe atindaki Mwana na Ye mpo ete azala mbeka mpo na bolimbisi masumu na biso.
11 Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Balingami na ngai, lokola Nzambe alingaki biso mingi penza, biso mpe tosengeli kolingana biso na biso.
12 No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Moto moko te asila komona Nzambe; nzokande soki tozali kolingana biso na biso, Nzambe azali kati na biso mpe bolingo na Ye ezali ya kokoka kati na biso.
13 Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.
Tala ndenge nini toyebaka ete tozali kati na Nzambe, mpe Nzambe azali kati na biso: ezali na nzela ya Molimo na Ye, oyo apesa biso.
14 And we have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son [as] Saviour of the world.
Tosilaki komona Ye mpe totatolaka ete Tata atinda Mwana na Ye mpo ete azala Mobikisi ya mokili.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Moto oyo andimaka ete Yesu azali Mwana na Nzambe, Nzambe azali kati na ye, mpe ye azali kati na Nzambe.
16 And we have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Mpe biso toyebi mpe tozali na kondima kati na bolingo oyo Nzambe azali na yango mpo na biso. Nzambe azali bolingo, mpe moto oyo abikaka kati na bolingo abikaka kati na Nzambe, mpe Nzambe abikaka kati na ye.
17 Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as he is, we also are in this world.
Tala mpo na nini bolingo ezali ya kokoka kati na biso: ezali mpo ete tozala na elikya ya kokoka na mokolo ya kosambisama; pamba te kati na mokili oyo, ndenge Klisto azali, ndenge biso mpe tozali.
18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.
Kati na bolingo, kobanga ezalaka te; kasi bolingo oyo ezali ya kokoka elongolaka bobangi, pamba te bobangi ebendaka etumbu. Mpe moto oyo abangaka azali nanu ya kokoka te kati na bolingo.
19 We love because he has first loved us.
Biso, tolingaka mpo ete Nzambe alingaki biso, ya liboso.
20 If any one say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Soki moto alobi ete alingaka Nzambe, kasi azali lisusu koyina ndeko na ye, azali mokosi. Pamba te moto oyo alingaka te ndeko na ye, oyo amonaka akoki kolinga te Nzambe oyo amonaka te.
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he that loves God love also his brother.
Kutu, Klisto apesaki biso mobeko oyo: moto oyo alingaka Nzambe asengeli mpe kolinga ndeko na ye.
