1 Corinthians 4
1 So, then, let a man consider us as servants only of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God.
Mundu atilolayi tete kuvya ngati vatumisi va Kilisitu, vevihengela ujumbi wa mfiyu wa Chapanga.
2 Now, it is required in stewards, that every one be found faithful.
Chechiganikiwa kwa mundu yoyoha mweapewili lihengu lenili ndi kuvya msadikika.
3 Therefore, to me it is a very small matter that I be condemned by you, or by human judgment, seeing I do not condemn myself.
Kwa nene chindu lepi nikahamuliwa na nyenye, amala na pandu pa kuhamuliwa vandu, nakujihamula namwene.
4 For I am conscious to myself of no fault. However, I am not by this justified; but he who judges me is the Lord.
Mumtima wangu nihamuliwa lepi kwa lijambu loloha, nambu yilangisa lepi kuvya kawaka lawama. BAMBU ndi mweihamula.
5 Wherefore, do not, before the time, pass any judgment, till the Lord come; who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and lay open the counsels of the hearts; and then praise shall be to every one from God.
Hinu, mkoto kuhamula kwakona lukumbi lwaki, mulekayi mbaka peibwela BAMBU. Mwene yati akugafiyula goha gachitita gegafiyiki, na kuvika pawaka maholo ga mitima ya vandu. Kila mundu yati ipata ulumba kuhuma kwa Chapanga.
6 Now, these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself, and Apollos, for your sakes, that by us you may learn not to esteem teachers above what has been written, that no one of you may, on account of one teacher, be puffed up against another.
Valongo vangu, nimutumalili Apolo na nene namwene muni kupitila tete mujiwulayi kuhuma kwitu mana ya luhumu ulu. “Mugakamulayi gegayandikwi.” Akotoka kuvya mundu pagati yinu mweimeka na kumvevesa mundu yungi.
7 Besides, who makes you to differ? For what have you which you did not receive? And now, if you did receive it, why do you boast as not receiving it?
Yani mwakuvikili veve kuvya mvaha kuliku vangi? Chapanga lepi ndi mwakupelili vindu vyoha vyeuvi navyu? Ngati, ndava kyani wimeka ngati upewi lepi ngati njombi?
8 Now you are filled! now you are become rich! you have reigned without it! and I wish, indeed, you had reigned, that we also might reign with you.
Hinu! Mumali kupewa goha gamwaganayi! Muvi na vindu vyamahele! Muvi vankosi changali tete. Mbanga ngamuvi vachilongosi muni na tete mewa tilongosa pamonga na nyenye.
9 For I think that God has set forth us, the Apostles, last, as persons appointed to death; because we are made a spectacle to the world, even to angels, and to men.
Niholalela Chapanga atikitili tete vamitumu tivyai vandu va mwishu neju, vetivalangiwi kukomewa palongolo ya vandu, tivikiwi ngati chindu cha kuhekesa, chechilolekana na mulima woha na vamitumi va kunani kwa Chapanga, mewawa na vandu voha.
10 We are fools on account of Christ; but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honored, but we are despised.
Tete vayimu ndava ya Kilisitu, nambu nyenye muvi na luhala kwa kuwungana na Kilisitu! Tete tavakata nambu nyenye muvi na makakala. Nyenye vakuvatopesa, nambu tete vakutivevesa.
11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place,
Mbaka hinu, tete tivii na njala na njota, nyula yilalile, titoviwi mavamba, kawaka pandu pakugona.
12 and labor, working with our own hands: when reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear:
Kangi ting'ahika na kuhenga lihengu kwa mawoko gitu tavete. Vakatipela likoto tete tikuvamotisa, tikuvayupila kwa Chapanga, vakatinyagayi tikangamala,
13 when defamed, we beseech: when we are become as the purgations of the world, the filth of all things until now.
pevakutiliga, tiyangula kwa upoli. Mbaka hinu vatikitili ngati gahakau wa mulima, kwa kila mundu tete uhakala!
14 I write not these things to shame you; but, as my beloved children, I instruct you.
Niyandika lepi mambu aga ndava ya kuvapela soni, nambu nikuvawula ngati vana vangu vaganu.
15 For, though you have ten thousand teachers in Christ, yet you have not many fathers; for, to Christ Jesus, through the gospel, I have begotten you.
Pamonga muvi na valelaji vamahele muwumi winu wa Chikilisitu, nambu muvi lepi dadi vamahele, kwa kuwungana na Kilisitu Yesu nene ndi mwenivi dadi winu mukuvakokosela Lilovi la Bwina nyenye.
16 Wherefore, I beseech you, be imitators of me.
Hinu, nikuvayupa neju mulandayi luhumu wangu.
17 For this purpose I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord: he will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere, in every congregation.
Ndi mana nimtumili Timoti kwinu, mwene ndi mwana vangu mganu na msadikika mukuwungana na BAMBU. Yati akuvakumbusa njila yenilanda muwungana na Kilisitu Yesu. Njila yeniwula pandu pamahele pa msambi wa vandu vevakumsadika Kilisitu.
18 Now, some are puffed up, as if I were not coming to you.
Vandu vangi vatumbwili kumeka na kuholalela ngati nibwela lepi kangi kwinu.
19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord will, and shall know, not the speech of them who are puffed up, but the power.
Nambu, yati nibwela kanyata BAMBU akaganayi, penapo ndi yati nikujilolela namwene, lepi chevijova vala vevimeka, nambu mewa kumanya makakala gavi.
20 For the Reign of God is not in word, but in power.
Muni Unkosi wa Chapanga lepi kujova ndu, nambu mumakakala.
21 What do you incline? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Hinu, mwigana kyani? Nibwela kwinu na ndonga, amala nibwela na mtima wa uganu na unkozi?
