2 Corinthians 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
Nahisi kwamba mngevumiliana na mimi katika baadhi ya upumbavu. Lakini kwa kweli mnavumiliana na mimi.
2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Kwa kuwa ni mwenye wivu kuhusu ninyi. Nina wivu wa Mungu kwa ajili yenu, tangu nilipowaahidi ninyi kwenye ndoa ya mume mmoja. Niliahidi kuwaleta ninyi kwa Kristo kama bikra safi.
3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the sincerity and purity that is in Christ.
Lakini ninaogopa kwamba kwa namna fulani, kama nyoka alivyomdanganya Eva kwa hila yake, mawazo yenu yanaweza kupotoshwa mbali kutoka kwenye ibada halisi na safi kwa Kristo.
4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
Kwa kuwa kwa mfano kwamba mtu fulani akaja na kutangaza Yesu mwingine tofauti na yule tuliyewahubiri. Au kwa mfano kwamba mkapokea roho mwingine tofauti na yule mliyempokea. Au kwa mfano kwamba mkapokea injili nyingine tofauti na ile mliyoipokea. Mkavumilia mambo haya vema inatosha!
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
Kwa kuwa nadhani kwamba mimi si miongoni mwa walio duni kwa hao wanaoitwa mitume-bora.
6 Even though I am unskilled in speech, I am not unskilled in knowledge. But in every way we have made this known to you in all things.
Lakini hata kama mimi sijafundishwa katika kutoa hotuba, siko hivyo katika maarifa. Kwa kila namna na katika mambo yote tumelifanya hili kujulikana kwenu.
7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?
Je, nilifanya dhambi kwa kujinyenyekeza mwenyewe ili ninyi muweze kuinuliwa? Kwa kuwa nilihubiri kwa uhuru injili ya Mungu kwenu.
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
Nilinyang'anya makanisa mengine kwa kupokea msaada kutoka kwao ili kwamba ningeweza kuwahudumia ninyi.
9 When I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
Wakati nilipokuwa nanyi na nilikuwa katika uhitaji, sikumlemea yeyote. Kwa kuwa mahitaji yangu yalitoshelezwa na ndugu waliokuja kutoka Makedonia. Katika kila kitu nimejizuia mwenyewe kutokuwa mzigo kwenu, na nitaendelea kufanya hivyo.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Kama kweli ya Kristo ilivyo ndani yangu, huku kujisifu kwangu, hakutanyamazishwa katika sehemu za Akaya.
11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
Kwa nini? Kwa sababu siwapendi? Mungu anajua nawapenda.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
Lakini kile ninachokifanya, nitakifanya pia. Nitakifanya ili kwamba niweze kuzuia nafasi ya wale wanaotamani nafasi ya kuwa kama tulivyo katika kile kile wanachojivunia.
13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
Kwa kuwa watu wale ni mitume wa uongo na watendakazi wadanganyifu. Wanajigeuza wenyewe kama mitume wa Kristo.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
Na hii haishangazi, kwa kuwa hata Shetani hujigeuza mwenyewe kama malaika wa nuru.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Hii haina mshangao mkubwa kama watumishi wake pia kujigeuza wenyewe kama watumishi wa haki. Hatma yao itakuwa kama matendo yao yastahilivyo.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
Nasema tena: Basi na asiwepo mtu yeyote anayefikiri mimi ni mpumbavu. Lakini kama mkifanya, nipokeeni mimi kama mpumbavu ili niweze kujisifu kidogo.
17 That which I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Kile ninachosema kuhusu huku kujiamini kwa kujivuna hakuhukumiwi na Bwana, lakini nazungumza kama mpumbavu.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
Kwa vile watu wengi hujivuna kwa jinsi ya mwili, nitajivuna pia.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
Kwa kuwa mlichukuliana kwa furaha na wapumbavu, ninyi wenyewe mna busara!
20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.
Kwa kuwa mnachukuliana na mtu kama akikutia utumwani, kama husababisha mgawanyiko kati yenu, kama akiwatumia ninyi kwa faida yake, kama akijiweka juu hewani, au kama akiwapiga usoni.
21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
Nitasema kwa aibu yetu kwamba sisi tukuwa dhaifu sana kufanya hivyo. Na bado kama yeyote akijivuna— nazungumza kama mpumbavu— mimi pia nitajivuna.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
Je, wao ni Wayahudi? Na mimi ni hivyo. Je, wao ni Waisraeli? Na mimi ni hivyo. Je, wao ni uzao wa Abrahamu? Na mimi ni hivyo.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
Je, wao ni watumishi wa Kristo? (Nanena kama nilirukwa na akili zangu. ) Mimi ni zaidi. Nimekuwa hata katika kazi ngumu zaidi, mbali zaidi ya kuwa vifungoni, katika kupigwa kupita vipimo, katika kukabili hatari nyingi za kifo.
24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
Kutoka kwa Wayahudi nimepokea mara tano “mapigo arobaini kutoa moja.”
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
Mara tatu nilipigwa kwa fimbo. Mara moja nilipigwa mawe. Mara tatu nilinusurika melini. Nimetumia usiku na mchana katika bahari wazi.
26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from those who are not Jews, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
Nimekuwa katika safari za mara kwa mara, katika hatari za mito, katika hatari za majambazi, katika hatari kutoka kwa watu wangu mwenyewe, katika hatari kutoka kwa watu wa mataifa, katika hatari ya mji, katika hatari ya jangwa, katika hatari ya bahari, katika hatari kutoka kwa ndugu waongo.
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
Nimekuwa katika kazi ngumu na katika maisha magumu, katika usiku mwingi wa kutolala, katika njaa na kiu, mara nyingi katika kufunga, katika baridi na uchi.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
Mbali na kila kitu kingine, kuna msukumo wa kila siku juu yangu wa wasiwasi wangu kwa ajili ya makanisa.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
Nani ni dhaifu, na mimi siyo dhaifu? Nani amesababisha mwingine kuanguka dhambini, na mimi siungui ndani?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
Kama ni lazima nijivune, nitajivunia kuhusu kile kinachoonyesha udhaifu wangu.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie. (aiōn g165)
Mungu na Baba wa Bwana Yesu, yeye ambaye anatukuzwa milele, anajua kwamba mimi sidanganyi. (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to arrest me.
Kule Dameski, mkuu wa mkoa chini ya mfalme Areta alikuwa akiulinda mji wa Dameski ili kunikamata.
33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Lakini niliwekwa kikapuni, kupitia dirishani katika ukuta, na nikanusurika kutoka mikononi mwake.
