1 Peter 2
1 Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all backbiting,
Nangmouh teh Bawipa Cathut e lungmanae na patek toung dawkvah,
2 like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation –
Utsinnae cawngca, dumyennae, tami kahawi lah kâsaknae, kâhmuhmanae, kâpathoenae pueng pahnawt awh nateh, rungngang nahanelah muitha sanutui katang hoi roung hanelah,
3 since ‘you have found by experience that the Lord is kind.’
camosen patetlah hote sanutui hah ngainae hoi kahran awh haw.
4 Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes choice and precious;
Taminaw ni a pahnawt awh teh Cathut ni a rawi e hringnae talung tie hote Bawipa koe pha teh,
5 and, as living stones, form yourselves into a spiritual house, to be a consecrated priesthood, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
kahring e talungnaw patetlah patuenpatuen pacoung teh sak e muitha koe lae im lah o awh. Jisuh Khrih lahoi Cathut ni a ngai e thuengnae ka sak hane kathounge vaihma miphun lah o awh.
6 For there is a passage of scripture that runs – ‘See, I am placing in Zion a choice and precious cornerstone; and those who believe in him will have no cause for shame.’
Cakathoung dawk a thut e patetlah rawi e im takinlung aphu kaawm e hah Zion mon dawk ka ta. Hote talung ka kâuep e naw pueng teh kayanae tawn mahoeh telah ati.
7 It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is ‘a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,’
Hatdawkvah hote talung teh kayuemnaw hanelah a lentoenae lah ao. Kayuemhoehnaw hanelah teh im kasaknaw ni a pahnawt a eiteh im tungkhu takin koe ka phat e talung lah ao.
8 and ‘a stumbling-block, and a rock which will prove a hindrance.’ They stumble because they do not accept the message. This was the fate destined for them.
A lawk kangâihoehnaw hanelah teh hote talung teh tâlawnae talung hoi payonnae lungsong lah ao. Hottelah ao nahanelah ahnimouh teh a rawi e lah ao.
9 But you are ‘a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God’s own people,’ entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Nangmouh teh a hmonae koehoi kângairu angnae dawk na kakawkung Amae pholennae kamnue sak hanelah rawi e miphun lah na o awh. Siangpahrang vaihma miphun, kathounge miphun, Cathut e miphun katang lah na o awh.
10 Once you were ‘not a people,’ but now you are ‘God’s people’; once you ‘had not found mercy,’ but now you ‘have found mercy.’
Yampa vah nangmouh teh Cathut e miphun lah na awm awh hoeh. Atuteh Cathut e miphun lah na o awh. Yampa vah a lungmanae na coe awh hoeh eiteh atuteh na coe awh toe.
11 Dear friends, I beg you, as pilgrims and strangers on earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war on the soul.
Ka lungpataw e taminaw, nangmouh teh imyin lah na o awh teh Muitha ka taran e takthai radueknae hah roun hanelah na hroecoe awh.
12 Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evildoers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God ‘at the time when he will visit them.’
Jentelnaw e rahak vah khet kamcu lah khosak awh. Hottelah kho na sak awh pawiteh ahnimouh ni nangmouh teh yon ka sak e tami lah na dei nakunghai nangmae hnokahawi na sak e naw a hmu toteh, Cathut hmalah Bawipa e bawilennae teh a pholen awh han.
13 Submit to all human institutions for the Lord’s sake, alike to the emperor as the supreme authority,
Bawipa e minhmai khet laihoi ka lentoe poung e siangpahrang nakunghai thoseh, tami kahawi oup hanelah thoseh,
14 and to governors as sent by him to punish evildoers and to commend those who do right.
Siangpahrang ni a rawi e kâ katawnnaw thoseh, taminaw koe khokhangkung bawinaw e hrawinae lawk ngâi awh.
15 For God’s will is this – that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.
Bangkongtetpawiteh nangmouh ni hnokahawi na sak e lahoi tami pathunaw e pathunae lawk rakhip thai nahanelah Cathut ngainae lah ao.
16 Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.
Tami kahloutnaw patetlah hring awh. Hatei hote hloutnae hah kahawihoeh sak nahanelah hno laipalah Cathut e a san patetlah kâroe awh.
17 Show honor to everyone, love the Lord’s followers, ‘revere God, honor the emperor.’
Tami pueng hah bari awh. Hmaunawngha hah lungpataw awh. Cathut hah taket awh. Siangpahrang hah bari awh.
18 Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.
Sannaw, takinae lahoi na Bawipa e hrawinae ngai awh. Bawi teh lungthin kahawi hoi lungdonae ka tawn nakunghai thoseh, a lungthin ka muenyang e hai thoseh, a lawk ngâi pouh awh.
19 For this wins God’s approval when, because conscious of God’s presence, a person who is suffering unjustly bears their troubles patiently.
Cathut e minhmai khet laihoi kathuem hoeh e rektapnae na khang nakunghai yawhawinae ao.
20 What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.
Ma e yon kecu dawk hemnae khang boipawiteh bangmaw oup hane kawi kaawm. Hnokahawi na sak nahlangva vah, rucatnae na khang pawiteh Cathut koe yawhawinae ao.
21 For it was to this that you were called! For Christ, too, suffered – on your behalf – and left you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
Bangkongtetpawiteh, hot patetlah hane doeh nangmouh teh kaw lah na o awh teh, Khrih ni mamouh hanelah a khang teh, a khokhnuk dawn vaiteh khetsin hane kawi mitnoutnae na ta pouh toe.
22 He ‘never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.’
Hote Bawipa teh yonnae sak hoeh, apâhni dawk hai laithoe awmhoeh.
23 He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.
Pathoenae a khang navah, bout pathung hoeh. Rucatnae a khang na haiyah pakhi laipalah, kalan lah lawkcengkung koe amahoima a kâhnawng toe.
24 And he ‘himself carried our sins’ in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. ‘His bruising was your healing.’
Maimouh teh yon hoi ka kâkuen e naw koe lah due awh teh lannae koelah na hring sak hanelah maimae yonnae hah ama roeroe ni a tak thung thing dawk a sin toe. A hemnae hmâtannaw dawk hoi nangmouh teh na dam awh toe.
25 Once you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
Nangmouh teh lam ka phen e tu patetlah na o awh. Atuteh Tukhoumkung lah kaawm e, nangmae lungthin muitha kakhenyawnkung, Bawi koe bout na pha awh toe.
