Romans 3
1 What is then the preferment of the Iewe? or what is the profite of circumcision?
Kisha ni faida gani aliyo nayo Myahudi? Na faida ya tohara ni nini?
2 Much euery maner of way: for chiefly, because vnto them were of credite committed the oracles of God.
Ni vyema sana kwa kila njia. Awali ya yote, Wayahudi walikabidhiwa ufunuo kutoka kwa Mungu.
3 For what, though some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?
Lakini, itakuwaje iwapo baadhi ya Wayahudi hawakuwa na imani? Je, kutokuamini kwao kutafanya uaminifu wa Mungu kuwa batili?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.
La hasha. Badala yake, acha Mungu aonekane kuwa kweli, hata kama kila mtu ni mwongo. Kama ilivyokuwa imeandikwa, “Ya kwamba uweze kuonekana kuwa mwenye haki katika maneno yako, na uweze kushinda uingiapo katika hukumu.”
5 Now if our vnrighteousnes comend the righteousnes of God, what shall we say? Is God vnrighteous which punisheth? (I speake as a man.)
Lakini ikiwa uovu wetu unaonesha haki ya Mungu, tuseme nini? Mungu si dhalimu atoapo ghadhabu yake, je yupo hivyo? Naongea kutokana na mantiki ya kibinadamu.
6 God forbid: els how shall God iudge ye world?
La hasha! Ni jinsi gani basi Mungu atauhukumu ulimwengu?
7 For if the veritie of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glorie, why am I yet condemned as a sinner?
Lakini ikiwa kweli ya Mungu kupitia uongo wangu hutoa sifa tele kwa ajili yake, kwa nini ningali bado nahukumiwa kama mwenye dhambi?
8 And (as we are blamed, and as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.
Kwa nini tusiseme, kama tulivyosingiziwa na kama wengine wanavyothibitisha kwamba tunasema, “Tufanye uovu, ili mema yaje”? Hukumu juu yao ni ya haki.
9 What then? are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,
Ni nini basi? Tunajitetea wenyewe? Hapana kabisa. Kwa kuwa sisi tayari tumewatuhumu Wayahudi na Wayunani wote pamoja, ya kuwa wapo chini ya dhambi.
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
Hii ni kama ilivyoandikwa: “Hakuna mwenye haki, hata mmoja.
11 There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that seeketh God.
Hakuna mtu ambaye anaelewa. Hakuna mtu ambaye anamtafuta Mungu.
12 They haue all gone out of the way: they haue bene made altogether vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.
Wote wamegeuka. Wao kwa pamoja wamekuwa hawana maana. Hakuna atendaye mema, la, hata mmoja.
13 Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.
Makoo yao ni kaburi lililo wazi. Ndimi zao zimedanganya. Sumu ya nyoka ipo chini ya midomo yao.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
Vinywa vyao vimejaa laana na uchungu.
15 Their feete are swift to shead blood.
Miguu yao ina mbio kumwaga damu.
16 Destruction and calamity are in their waies,
Uharibifu na mateso yapo katika njia zao.
17 And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.
Watu hawa hawajajua njia ya amani.
18 The feare of God is not before their eies.
Hakuna hofu ya Mungu mbele ya macho yao.”
19 Now we know that whatsoeuer ye Lawe saieth, it saieth it to them which are vnder ye Law, that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world be subiect to the iudgement of God.
Sasa tunajua kwamba chochote sheria isemacho, husema na wale walio chini ya sheria. Hii ni ili kwamba kila kinywa kifungwe, na hivyo kwamba ulimwengu wote uweze kuwajibika kwa Mungu.
20 Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.
Hii ni kwa sababu hakuna mwili utakaohesabiwa haki kwa matendo ya sheria mbele za macho yake. Kwa kuwa kupitia Sheria huja ufahamu wa dhambi.
21 But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,
Lakini sasa pasipo sheria, haki ya Mungu imejulikana. Ilishuhudiwa kwa sheria na Manabii,
22 To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue.
hiyo ni, haki ya Mungu kupitia imani katika Yesu Kristo kwa wale wote wanaoamini. Maana hakuna tofauti.
23 For there is no difference: for all haue sinned, and are depriued of the glorie of God,
Kwa kuwa wote wamefanya dhambi, na kupungukiwa na utukufu wa Mungu.
24 And are iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus,
Wamehesabiwa haki bure kwa neema yake kwa njia ya ukombozi ulio katika Kristo Yesu.
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed,
Kwa maana Mungu alimtoa Kristo Yesu awe upatanisho kwa njia ya imani katika damu yake. Alimtoa Kristo kama ushahidi wa haki yake, kwa sababu ya kuziachilia dhambi zilizopita
26 Through the patience of God, to shewe at this time his righteousnesse, that hee might be iust, and a iustifier of him which is of the faith of Iesus.
katika uvumilivu wake. Haya yote yalitokea ili kuonesha haki yake wakati huu wa sasa. Hii ilikuwa ili aweze kujithibitisha mwenyewe kuwa haki, na kuonesha kwamba humhesabia haki mtu yeyote kwa sababu ya imani katika Yesu.
27 Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.
Kuwapi basi kujisifu? Kumetengwa. Kwa misingi ipi? Misingi ya matendo? Hapana, lakini kwa misingi ya imani.
28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.
Hivyo tunahitimisha kwamba mtu huhesabiwa haki kwa imani pasipo matendo ya sheria.
29 God, is he the God of the Iewes onely, and not of the Gentiles also? Yes, euen of the Gentiles also.
Au Mungu ni Mungu wa Wayahudi tu? Je yeye si Mungu wa watu wa Mataifa pia? Ndiyo, wa mataifa pia.
30 For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.
Ikiwa kwa kweli Mungu ni mmoja, atawahesabia haki walio wa tohara kwa imani, na wasiotahiriwa kwa njia ya imani.
31 Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.
Je sisi twaibatilisha sheria kwa imani? La hasha! Kinyume cha hayo, sisi twaithibitisha sheria.
