2 Corinthians 9
1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
Mpo na ngai, ezali na tina te ya kokomela bino na tina na lisungi ya kopesa na basantu,
2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
pamba te nayebi molende na bino mpo na kosunga, mpe nazalaki komikumisa na tina na yango epai ya bato ya Masedwane. Nazalaki koloba na bango: « Kati na Akayi, wuta na mobu oyo eleki, bazali ya kobongama mpo na kopesa. » Mpe bolingo na bino etindikaki bato mingi kati na bango na kosunga.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
Kasi nazali kotindela bino bandeko mpo ete, na likambo yango, lolendo na biso na tina na bino emonana te lokola ya pamba, kasi mpo ete bozala penza ya kobongama, ndenge kaka nalobaki yango.
4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
Pamba te soki bato ya Masedwane bayei elongo na ngai mpe bakuti bino bozali ya kobongama te, tokoyoka penza soni, mpo ete tozali penza kotiela bino motema; mpe ekozala soni na biso kaka te, kasi soni na bino mpe lokola.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.
Yango wana, namonaki ete ezali malamu kosenga na bandeko yango ete bakoma epai na bino liboso na ngai, mpo na kobongisa makabo oyo bolakaki. Boye ekomizalela tango ngai nakokoma, mpe ekolakisa ete bopesaki yango na esengo mpe na bonsomi, kasi na makasi te.
6 But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Bokanisaka likambo oyo: Moto oyo alonaka moke abukaka mpe moke, mpe moto oyo alonaka ebele abukaka mpe ebele.
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, [so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Tika ete moko na moko kati na bino apesa oyo akanaki kopesa kati na motema na ye, na mawa te mpe na makasi te, pamba te Nzambe alingaka moto oyo apesaka na esengo.
8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:
Nzambe azali mpe na makoki ya kotondisa bino na mapamboli ya ndenge na ndenge mpo ete, na tango nyonso mpe kati na makambo nyonso, bozala na nyonso oyo bozali na yango na bosenga mpe botonda lisusu na oyo bokosala na yango misala ya malamu ya lolenge nyonso,
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. (aiōn g165)
kolanda ndenge ekomama: « Akabelaka babola na motema ya esengo, mpe bosembo na Ye ewumelaka libela na libela. » (aiōn g165)
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; )
Mpe Ye oyo apesaka nkona epai ya moloni mpe lipa lokola bilei akopesa lisusu, akofulukisa nkona na bino mpe akokolisa bambuma ya bosembo na bino.
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
Boye bokokoma bazwi ya biloko nyonso mpo ete bokoka kokabaka tango nyonso; bongo bato epai ya banani tokopesa makabo na bino bakozongisa matondi epai ya Nzambe.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
Pamba te lotomo ya makabo na bino ezali kaka te mpo na kokokisa bosenga ya basantu, kasi ezali mpe mpo ete matondi mingi ezonga epai ya Nzambe.
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];
Mpo ete lotomo yango ekotalisa bosolo ya komipesa na bino, basantu bakokumisa Nzambe mpo na botosi ya kondima na bino kati na Sango Malamu ya Klisto, mpe mpo na esengo oyo mitema na bino ezali na yango mpo na kokabola biloko na bino elongo na bango mpe elongo na bato nyonso.
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
Mpe bakosambela mpo na bino, mpo na kolakisa bolingo makasi oyo bazali na yango mpo na bino, likolo ya ngolu monene oyo Nzambe apesa bino.
15 Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Tika ete matondi epesamela Nzambe mpo na likabo na Ye, oyo bato bakoki kolimbola te!
