1 John 4
1 Dear friends, many people [who have a false message] are teaching it to people [MTY]. So do not trust every [message that someone claims/says that God’s] Spirit [MTY] [gave to him]. Instead, (test/think carefully about) the teachings that [you hear] in order to know whether they are from God or not.
tano nyo nob cwi ka miko kom ciyere kange yuwa tangbe no nyori kom cuwa yuwa tanngbeko kom nyimom no kwama ceri la nyo nob dukkumecwer ducce wifo mwor kalewo
2 [I will tell] you how to recognize [teachings that come from] the Spirit of God: Those who affirm/say that Jesus Christ came [from God] to become a human [like us] are [teaching a message] that is from God.
nyokak nyimom yuwa tongbako gwam ciya kange kiritti Almaciya bou mworon bwiyeri na kwama ce
3 But those who do not affirm/say [that about] Jesus are not [teaching a message] from God. [They are teachers who] oppose Christ. You have heard that people like that are coming [to be among us]. Even now they are already here!
no nyori yuwa tangbako ciya bo kange keritti kobo na kwamace, co yuwa tangbako, wo ko kange Almaciya kom nuwa wi botiye, kweri bi yeken wifo mwor kalewo
4 As for you who are very dear to me, you belong to God, and you have refused [the false messages] that those people [teach], because [God], who enables you [to do what he wants], is (greater/more powerful) than ([Satan/the devil]), who enables (godless people/people who conduct their lives in a way that displeases God) [MTY].
kom bi beiyo curou nob kwama nine, kweri kom cam kaba diye bwiye” niworu fwer kumereu lawuro fo kalewo bidiwiyer
5 As for [those who are teaching what is false], they are (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY]. Because of that, they teach what (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY] want to hear. That is why the (godless people/people whose lives displease God) [MTY] listen to them.
ci na kalece dige ci toktiyeu na kalece, yilo kaleu nuwa citi
6 As for us [(exc)], [because] we belong to God, whoever (knows/has a close relationship with) God listens to us. [But] those who do not belong to God do not listen to us. That is how we can know whether [the things that people are teaching] [MTY] are true or whether they are false, and deceiving [people].
nyo na kwama ce, gwam ni wo nyimom kwama nurang yoti wuro kebo na kwama cemani nuwarang yoti co fiye nyo nyimom yuwa tangba keni kange yuwa tangba cwerke
7 Dear friends, we must love each other, because God [enables us] to love [each other], and because those who love [their fellow believers] have become God’s children and (know/have a close relationship with) him.
nob cwika mikko bi cwi butibi dila na kwama ce wono ki cwikadi ci bo cedi kino firen kwama, dila con nyimom kwama
8 God’s [nature] is to love [all people]. So those who do not love [their fellow believers] do not (know/have a relationship with) God.
ni wo man ki cwi ka cwibo kwama niworo nyombo kwama, dila kwama cwika, nyo more ce ci cwika kwama cwika, nyo morece ci cwika kwama,
9 I will tell you how God has shown us [that he] loves us: He sent (his only Son/the only one who was also God) [to live] on the earth to enable us to live [eternally] as a result of [our trusting in what] he [accomplished for us by dying for us].
binene kwama tomu bibwece wo nyo wine fo kalewo dige bwiye nabi bu wi cimen
10 [And God] has shown [us what it means to] love [another person]: [It does] not [mean] that we loved God, but [it means] that God loved us and sent (his Son/the one who was also God) to sacrifice [his life] in order that [our sins might be forgiven] {[he might forgive] our sins}.
nyo wi more curo cwika wi kebo bo bi cwi kwama dila kwama cwibe co tomu bi bweco na cok binen bwirangker lero
11 Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
nob cwika miko kambo kwama bi langbo nyowe daten bilang butibi
12 No one has ever seen God. [Nevertheless], if we love each other, [it is evident that] God lives within us and that we love others just like he [intends/wants us to do].
ni kange mani wo tom kwama wiye no bi cwiti bwitibiri kwama yimwi more be, dila cwika wi nyimom morebe,
13 [I will tell you] how we can be sure that we have a close relationship with God and that God is within us: He has put his Spirit within us.
cofiye ba nyimom ti ciki no morebe co keneu co ki no morebe dige bwiyeu naco bo yuwa cekko
14 We [apostles] have seen (God’s Son/the one who is also God), and [we tell people] that the Father sent him to save [the people in] the world [MTY] [from being punished for their sins].
bin tom bin ne bilengke biki kwama bi bwece, na yilam nii fuloka kale
15 [So] those who affirm/say that Jesus is the (Son of/one who is also) God, God is within them, and they have a close relationship with God.
gwam niwo ciya kiritti bi bwe kwama ri kwama yim morece co kene co mwor kwama
16 We have experienced how God loves us and we believe that he loves us. [As a result, we love others. Because] God’s [nature] is to love people, those who continue to love [others] have a close relationship with God, and God has a close relationship with them.
bin nyimom bin ne bilengke cwi ka kwama woru mabinen tiye, kwama cwika, wa yim mwor cwikari yim mwor cwika kwama, kwama la yim mworece
17 We [should] love others completely. And if we do that, when the time comes for [him to] judge us, we will be confident [that he will not condemn us] (OR, [that we have a close relationship with him]). [We will be confident of that] because of our [conducting our lives] in this world as Christ did.
nyo no wurori cwika kwama fiyam fiye yime tiber kumet nakom yimki nyomka kambo ken kibi diye warka, kambo co no curo nyie, bona curoken wimwor kalewo
18 We will not be afraid [of God] if we [truly] love [him], because those who love [God] completely cannot possibly be afraid [of him]. [We would be] afraid only [if we thought that he would] punish us. So those who are afraid [of God certainly] are not loving [God] completely.
twai mani mwor cwika la cwika kendo bouti ki twai, dige bwiye twaiyo ken kange warka dila niwo ki twaiyeu manki cwika ko ken
19 We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
bi cwi bileng lati dige bwiye kwama ten maka cwika beke
20 [So] those who say “I love God” but hate a fellow believer are lying. Those who do not love one of their fellow believers, whom they have seen, certainly cannot be loving God, whom they have not seen.
no nika tok ki ci cwi kwama tiri la ci ko kecetiri nii cwerke, tano niwo cwibo kece wuroci totiyeri, mani ce cwikwama wuro mani cototiyeti
21 Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
wuro co kero nyo cike ci mone, gwam niwo cwi kwama tiye tam nyo ca bilang yice,
