1 John 4
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have 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 By this you know the Rukha of God: every spirit who confesses that Yeshua Meshikha has come in the 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 who does not confess Yeshua is not of God; and this is that of the Anti-Meshikha, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
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 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who 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. Therefore they speak 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 who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God does not listen to us. By 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, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born 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 who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Moto oyo azangi bolingo ayebi Nzambe te, pamba te Nzambe azali bolingo.
9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only 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 In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice 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 loved us in this way, 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 remains in us, and his love has been 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 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Rukha.
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 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
Tosilaki komona Ye mpe totatolaka ete Tata atinda Mwana na Ye mpo ete azala Mobikisi ya mokili.
15 Whoever confesses that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains 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 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains 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 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we 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, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not 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 first loved us.
Biso, tolingaka mpo ete Nzambe alingaki biso, ya liboso.
20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot 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 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
Kutu, Klisto apesaki biso mobeko oyo: moto oyo alingaka Nzambe asengeli mpe kolinga ndeko na ye.
