Romans 9
1 [Now I would like to discuss the fact that most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ]. Because of my relationship with Christ, I say completely truthfully [what I will now tell you]. I am not lying [DOU]! My conscience confirms what I [say] because the Holy Spirit [controls it].
Mambu ndituba mu Klisto madi makiedika ayi ndikadi vuna. Mayindu mama ma ntima meti kuthelimina kimbangi mu Pheve Yinlongo:
2 [I tell you that] I grieve very greatly and deeply [DOU] [about my fellow Israelites].
ti kiadi kingolo kidi yama ayi phasi yika yilendi suka ko yidi yama mu ntima.
3 I personally would be willing to let [God] curse me [and, as a result, be separated] from Christ, [if that would] help my fellow Israelites, my natural kinsmen, [to believe in Christ].
Bila minu veka nditomba singu kuidi Nzambi ayi vambana ayi Klisto mu diambu di bakhomba ziama, bibutu biama bi dikanda.
4 We [Jews] are [Israelites, God’s chosen] descendants of [Jacob]. [God has always considered] us as his children [MET]. It was to our ancestors [that he used to appear] gloriously [while they were in the desert]. It was with them that [God made] covenants [several times]. It was to them [that God] gave the laws [at Sinai Mountain]. They were the ones [to whom God showed how they should] worship him. They were the ones [to whom God] promised many things, [especially that the Messiah would come from their race].
Bawu badi basi Iseli, bobo bakitulu bana bandi ayi bavuidi nkembo, zinguizani, dikaba di tambula Mina; tsambudulu yi kiedika ayi zitsila;
5 It was our ancestors, [Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God chose to found our nation]. And, [most importantly], it was from us Israelites that the Messiah received his human nature. [Nevertheless, most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], who is the one who controls all things! He is God, the one who is worthy that we praise him forever! This is true! (OR, Amen!) (aiōn g165)
bawu bavuidi bakulu. Mu kimutu, Klisto wutotukila mu bawu: Niandi wunyadila bima bioso. Nzambi niandi wunsakumunanga mu zithangu zioso. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 [God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their descendants would all inherit his blessings]. But [although most of my fellow Israelites have rejected Christ], that does not [prove] that God has failed [to do] the things that he promised, because it is not all who are descended from Jacob and who [call themselves the people of] Israel whom [God considers] to be truly his people.
Bika sia ti mambu ma Nzambi mabedoso bila baboso batotukila mu Iseli basiko basi Iseli.
7 And it is also not all of Abraham’s natural descendants that [God considers] to be his people. Instead, [God considers only some of them to be Abraham’s children]. [This agrees with what God told Abraham]: “It is Isaac, [not any of your(sg) other sons], whom [I] will consider [to be the true father of] your descendants.”
Bobuawu, babo badi mu nkuna Abalahami basi ko bana bandi. Bila Nzambi wukamba Abalahami: Mu Isaki kaka muela totukila nkunꞌaku.
8 That means that it is not all the natural-born descendants [of Abraham] whom God [considers as] his children. Instead, it is those who [believed what God] promised whom [he] considers to be his children.
Bu dinsundula ti: bika sia ti bana bobo babutukila mu kinsuni bawu bana ba Nzambi, vayi bobo babutukila mu tsila bawu bantangulungu bana ba nkuna.
9 [You know that what God] promised [to Abraham] was this: “About this time [next year] Sarah [your wife] will bear a son [as a result of my enabling] [MTY] [her to do so].” [So Abraham knew that it was not through Ishmael, the son that he already had, that God would fulfill what he had promised him] (OR, [that his true descendants would come]).
Bila mambu mama madi mambu ma tsila: Mu tsungi yayi ndiela kuiza ayi Sala wela buta muana wu bakala.
10 And not only then did God show [that he did not determine who would be his true children according to who their ancestors were. He showed it again] when Rebecca conceived [twins] by our ancestor Isaac.
Bika sia ti mambu momo kaka vayi buawu bobo mu Lebeka, mutu wowo wubutulu bitsimba kuidi dise dimosi, nkulu eto Isaki.
11 Before [the twins, Jacob and Esau], were born, when neither one had yet done anything good or bad, [God] said to Rebecca [about the twins she was to bear], “The older one shall later serve the younger one, [contrary to normal custom].” [God said this] in order that [we] might [clearly] understand that what he purposed [for people] was according to what he himself determined. That is, people’s [eternal destiny] does not depend on what they do. Instead, their destiny depends on [God], the one who chooses them.
Bila tuamina bitsimba bibutuka ayi buna bavengi ko kadi diambu dimosi di mboti voti di mbimbi mu diambu di dedikisa tsobodolo yi Nzambi; bika sia ti mu diambu di mavanga vayi mu diambu di mutu wowo wutela;
niandi bakamba ti: nleki wela yadila nkulutu.
13 And [this teaching is] ([supported/shown to be true]) [by] what is written [in the Scriptures] {what [a prophet] recorded} [that God said]: “I favored Jacob, [the younger son]. I did not favor [HYP] Esau, [the older son].”
Banga bu disonimina: minu ndizola Yakobi ayi ndilenda Esawu.
14 [Someone] might say, “(Is God unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose?/I think] that God is unjust [by choosing the ones he wants to choose!])” [RHQ] [I would reply], “[He is] certainly not [unjust]!”
Buna mbi tutuba e? Nzambi kasi wusonga ko e? Nana buawu ko.
15 God told Moses, “I will pity and help anyone whom I choose [DOU]!”
Bila niandi wukamba Moyize: Minu ndiela monina kiadi woso mutu thidi mona kiadi. Ayi ndiela vangila mamboti kuidi woso thidi vangila mamboti.
16 So [God chooses people], not because they want [God to choose them] or because they try hard [to do things so that he] will [accept them]. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy [on undeserving ones].
Momo masi ko mu diambu di luzolo lu mutu voti mu diambu di zingolo zi mutu vayi madi mu diambu di Nzambi wummonanga batu kiadi.
17 [Moses] recorded [PRS] [that God had told] Pharaoh, “This is why I gave you [(sg)] authority [MTY]: It was in order that I might show [by how I oppose] you [how exceedingly] powerful I am, and in order that people everywhere [HYP] would hear about me [MTY].”
Bila mu masonoko Nzambi wukamba Falawo ti: Mu bila kioki minu nditotula muingi ndimonisa lulendo luama mu ngeyo; muingi dizina diama diyamukusu va ntoto wumvimba.
18 So [we conclude that God] kindly helps the ones he wants to act kindly towards. But he makes stubborn the ones [such as Pharaoh] that he wants [to make stubborn].
Diawu niandi weti mona kiadi woso mutu katidi mona kiadi ayi weta kitula mfua matu woso mutu wu kazodidi.
19 [One of] you may [object to this by] saying to me, “[Because God determines ahead of time everything that people do, that also implies that he wants us to do everything that we do]. (No one has resisted what God has willed!/Who has resisted what God has willed?) [RHQ] Therefore, (it would not be right that God would still condemn [a person for having sinned]!/why does God still condemn [a person for having sinned]?) [RHQ]”
Buna ngeyo wela kukhamba: bila mbi kakidi tubidilanga e? Bila nani wulenda kakidila luzolo luandi e?
20 [I would reply that since] you [(sg)] are [just a] human being, (you do not [have any right at all to] criticize God!/[who are you to] say that what God does is wrong?) [RHQ] [As a potter is the one who creates a clay pot, God is the one who created you]. (A clay pot [MET] certainly would not [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”/Would a clay pot [have a right to criticize] the potter by asking [PRS], “Why did you [(sg)] make me this way?”) [RHQ]
Mutu, ngeyo widi nani mu findana ziphaka ayi Nzambi e? Kima kivangu kilenda tuba kuidi mutu wuvanga kiawu ti: “Bila mbiwuphangila buabu e?”
21 Instead, (the potter certainly has the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] one for ordinary purposes [MET]./does not a potter have the right to [take] some clay and from one lump [of clay] make one pot that people will honor and [make another] pot for ordinary purposes?) [MET, RHQ] [Similarly, God has the right to carry out what he purposes for people].
Mbumbi kasi ko minsua mu vanga mu tuma tumosi nzungu yi nzitusu ayi yinkaka yikambulu nzitusu e?
22 Although God desires to show that he is angry [about sin], and [although he desires to] make clear that he can powerfully [punish people who have sinned], he tolerated very patiently the people [MET] who caused him to be angry and who deserved to be destroyed (OR, who were made to be destroyed).
Buna mbi wulenda tuba enati Nzambi, bu kazola monisa nganzi andi ayi monisa lulendo luandi, wuvibidila mu thangu yinda zinzungu zituma zi nganzi zikubuku mu bivusu e?
23 [God has been patient] in order that he might make clear how very wonderfully [he acts toward those] [MET] whom he intended to act mercifully towards and whom he prepared ahead of time in order that they might [live] gloriously [in heaven].
Bosi mbi diaka wulenda tuba enati Nzamni wuvanga buawu mu diambu di monisa kimvuama ki nkemboꞌandi mu zinzungu zituma zi kiadi zikakubika tona thama mu diambu di nkembo e?
24 That means us whom he chose—not only [us] Jews but also non-Jews.
Bila beto katela, bika sia ti muidi Bayuda kaka vayi ayi mu Bapakanu.
25 [These words that] Hosea wrote [MTY] that [God] said also (show that God has the right/[support God’s right]) [to choose from among both Jews and non-Jews] [MTY]: I will declare that many people who were not my people are now my people. I will declare that many people whom I did not love [HYP] before, I love now.
Banga bu katubila mu nkanda Oze: Bobo basia ba batu bama ko, ndiela ku batedila “batu bama” Nketo wowo wusia ba kiluzolo kiama ko, ndiela kuntedila kiluzolo.
26 And [another prophet wrote]: What will happen is that in the places where [God] told them before, “You are not my people,” in those same places [people] will declare truthfully that they are children of God, who is completely powerful.
Va buangu kioki baba kambila ti: “beno luisi batu bama ko” vana bela ku batedila: “bana ba Nzambi yi moyo.”
27 Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are [so many that no one can count them, like] sand [particles on the beach beside] the ocean, [only] a small part of them will be saved {[God] will save [only] a small part of them},
Ezayi wutuba mu diambu di Iseli ti: Enati thalu yi bana ba Iseli yilenda dedakana banga nzielo yi mbu, ndambu yela siala yawu kaka yela vuka.
28 because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the [people who live on] this earth, as he said that he would do.
Bila mu nsualu ayi mu bufuana Pfumu kela zengila mambu va ntoto.
29 [Also, we can understand from what the prophet] Isaiah said [that God would not save] anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of [the cities of] Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.
Banga Ezayi bu katuama tuba: Enati Pfumu yi minkangu mi masodi kasia kutubikila ndambu wu nkuna wu batu ko, nganu tudedakana banga basi Sodoma; nganu tuba banga basi Ngomola.
30 We must conclude this: [RHQ] Although non-Jews did not search out [a way by which] God would erase the record of their sins, they actually found that way because they trusted [in what Christ did for them].
A diambu mbi tutuba e? Bapakanu, bankambu kuawu landakananga busonga babakudi busonga; busonga bobo buntotukilanga mu minu.
31 But although [the people of] Israel sought a basis [by which God would] erase the record of their sins, they did not succeed in [fulfilling the true purpose of the] laws [that God gave to Moses].
Vayi Iseli bu kalandakana Mina mu diambu di ba wusonga kasia tula ku Mina beni ko.
32 The reason [RHQ] [that they did not succeed] is that they did not trust that [God would provide a way to save them]. Instead, they were trying to do certain things [in order that God would accept them. Because they did not expect the Messiah to die, the Israelites] felt disgusted about [Jesus’ death, which is like] the stone [MET] on which people stumble.
Bila mbi e? Bila Iseli kasia kumilandikinina ko mu minu vayi mu mavanga. Babumina thutu mu ditadi,
33 This is what [a prophet] predicted when he wrote these words that [God said about the Messiah]: Listen! I am placing in Israel [MTY] [one who is like] a stone [MET] on which people will stumble. What he does will offend people [DOU]. Nevertheless, those who believe in him will not be disappointed.
banga bu masonimina: Tala, minu thudidi ditadi mu Sioni ditadi di mbumina batu thutu ayi ditadi dinneni di mbuisa batu;
