1 Corinthians 6
1 DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Mmoja wenu anapokuwa na tatizo na mwenzake, anathubutu kwenda kwa mahakama ya wasio haki kuliko mbele ya waumini?
2 Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to be judges in the smallest matters?
Hamjui kuwa waumini watauhukumu ulimwengu? Na kama mtauhukumu ulimwengu, hamuwezi kuamua mambo yasiyo muhimu?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels, much more things pertaining to this life?
Hamjui kuwa tutawahukumu malaika? Kwa kiasi gani zaidi, tunaweza kuamua mambo ya maisha haya?
4 If then ye have disputes about the things of this life, do you seat those on the bench who are least esteemed in the church?
Kama tunaweza kuhukumu mambo ya maisha haya, kwa nini mnathubutu kupeleka mashitaka mbele ya wasiosimama kanisani?
5 I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?
Nasema haya kwa aibu yenu. Hakuna mwenye busara miongoni mwenu wa kutosha kuweka mambo sawa kati ya ndugu na ndugu?
6 But brother goes to law with brother, and this before the unbelievers.
Lakini kama ilivyo sasa, mwamini mmoja huenda mahakamani dhidi ya muumini mwingine, na mashitaka hayo huwekwa mbele ya hakimu asiyeamini!
7 Now verily therefore there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have law-suits one with another. Why do ye not rather submit to the wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Ukweli ni kwamba kuna matatizo katikati ya Wakristo yaliyoleta tayari usumbufu kwenu. Kwanini msiteseke kwa mabaya? Kwanini mnakubali kudanganywa?
8 But ye do wrong and defraud, and that the brethren.
Lakini mmetenda uovu na kudanganya wengine, na hao ni kaka na dada zenu!
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
Hamjui kwamba wasio haki hawataurithi ufalme wa Mungu? Msiamini uongo. Waasherati, waabudu sanamu, wazinzi, wafiraji, walawiti,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
wevi, wachoyo, walevi, wanyang'anyi, watukanaji-hakuna miongoni mwao atakayeurithi ufalme wa Mungu.
11 Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.
Na hao walikuwa baadhi yao ni ninyi. Lakini mmekwisha kutakaswa, lakini mmekwisha kuoshwa, lakini mmekwisha kutengwa kwa Mungu, lakini mmefanywa haki mbele za Mungu katika jina la Bwana Yesu Kristo na kwa Roho wa Mungu wetu.
12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but I will not put myself under the power of any.
“Vitu vyote ni halali kwangu”, lakini si kila kitu kina faida. “Vitu vyote ni halali kwangu,” lakini sitatawaliwa na kimoja cha hivyo.
13 Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
“Chakula ni kwa ajili ya tumbo, na tumbo ni kwa ajili ya chakula,” lakini Mungu atavitowesha vyote. Mwili haujaumbwa kwa ajili ya ukahaba, badala yake, mwili ni kwa ajili ya Bwana, na Bwana atauhudumia mwili.
14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up by his own power.
Mungu alimfufua Bwana na sisi pia atatufufua kwa nguvu zake.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.
Hamjui kwamba miili yenu ina muunganiko na Kristo? Mwawezaje kuvitoa viungo vya Kristo na kwenda kuviunganisha na kahaba? Haiwezekani!
16 Do you not know that he that is joined to an harlot is one body with her? For they two, saith he, shall be “one flesh.”
Hamjui kwamba anayeungana na kahaba amekuwa mwili mmoja naye? Kama andiko lisemavyo, “Wawili watakuwa mwili mmoja.”
17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
Lakini anayeungana na Bwana anakuwa roho moja pamoja naye.
18 Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.
Ikimbieni zinaa! “Kila dhambi aifanyayo mtu ni nje na mwili wake. Lakini zinaa, mtu hutenda dhambi dhidi ya mwili wake mwenyewe.
19 Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?
Hamjui kuwa miili yenu ni hekalu la Roho Mtakatifu, akaaye ndani yenu, yule ambaye mlipewa kutoka kwa Mungu? Hamjui kwamba si ninyi wenyewe?
20 For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Kwamba mlinunuliwa kwa thamani. Kwa hiyo mtukuzeni Mungu kwa miili yenu.
