Romans 3
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision?
Boye, kozala Moyuda ezali na litomba nini? Kokatama ngenga ezali na tina nini?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.
Solo, ezali penza na litomba monene kati na makambo nyonso. Pamba te Maloba ya Nzambe epesamaki liboso epai na bango.
3 For what if some did not believe? will their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Soki Bayuda mosusu bazangaki kondima, boni, bozangi na bango kondima ekolongola bosembo ya Nzambe?
4 By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.
Soki moke te! Nzambe azali solo, mpe bato nyonso bazali bakosi kolanda ndenge ekomama: « Mpo ete bamona yo sembo na maloba na yo, mpe okobanda kolongaka tango bakobanda kosambisaka yo. »
5 But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man.)
Kasi soki mabe na biso ezali kotalisa polele bosembo ya Nzambe, toloba nini? Nzambe azali mabe tango akitiselaka biso kanda na Ye? Nazali kaka kokanisa lokola moto.
6 By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
Te, ezali bongo te! Soki ezalaki bongo, ndenge nini Nzambe akokaki kosambisa mokili?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie to his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
To soki lokuta na ngai etalisi polele bosolo ya Nzambe mpe etomboli nkembo na Ye, mpo na nini nazwa lisusu etumbu lokola moto ya masumu?
8 And not [rather] (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Mpe mpo na nini toloba te: « Tika ete tosala mabe mpo ete bolamu ebima kati na mabe » ndenge bato oyo batongaka biso bakosaka ete toteyaka bongo. Bato wana basengeli kozwa etumbu oyo ekoki na mabe na bango.
9 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Boye, toloba nini? Biso Bayuda toleki bato mosusu? Te, soki moke te! Pamba te tosilaki kotalisa ete bato nyonso, ezala Bayuda to Bapagano, bango nyonso bazali na se ya bokonzi ya lisumu.
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Kolanda ndenge ekomama: « Moto ya sembo azali te, ata moko te;
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.
moto ya mayele azali te; ata moto moko te alukaka Nzambe.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Bango nyonso babunga nzela, bango nyonso bamibebisa; moko te asalaka bolamu, ata moko te.
13 Their throat [is] an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:
Minoko na bango ezali lokola bakunda ya kofungwama, lolemo na bango esalaka mosala ya kokosa, bibebu na bango ezali na ngenge ya etupa.
14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness.
Minoko na bango etonda na makambo ya bololo mpe na bilakeli mabe.
15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood.
Makolo na bango epotaka mbangu mpo na kosopa makila.
16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
Na bisika nyonso oyo balekelaka, batikaka kaka libebi mpe pasi;
17 And the way of peace have they not known.
bayebi nzela ya kimia te.
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Kotosa Nzambe ezali na tina ata moke te na miso na bango. »
19 Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Nzokande, toyebi malamu ete makambo nyonso oyo Mobeko elobaka, elobaka yango mpo na bato oyo bazali na se ya bokonzi ya Mobeko, mpo ete moto moko te amilongisa, mpe mpo ete moto nyonso asosola ete azali moto ya masumu liboso ya Nzambe.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.
Yango wana, moto moko te akotangama lokola moto ya sembo na miso ya Nzambe mpo ete akokisi misala ya Mobeko, pamba te Mobeko epesaka kaka boyebi ya lisumu.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being testified by the law and the prophets;
Kasi sik’oyo, na kozanga kosalela Mobeko, Nzambe atalisi polele ndenge nini akomisaka bato sembo liboso na Ye, ndenge Mobeko mpe Basakoli batatola yango.
22 Even the righteousness of God, [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference:
Bato nyonso oyo bandimaka, Nzambe akomisaka bango bato ya sembo na nzela ya kondima Yesu-Klisto. Bokeseni ezali te kati na Bayuda mpe Bapagano,
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
pamba te bato nyonso basali masumu mpe bazangi nkembo ya Nzambe;
24 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ:
mpe bato nyonso bakomi bato ya sembo na ofele, na ngolu na Ye, na nzela ya lisiko kati na Yesu-Klisto.
25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Nzambe akabaki Klisto lokola mbeka mpo ete, na nzela ya kosopa makila na Ye, Klisto azwa bolimbisi masumu ya bato oyo bazali kondima. Asalaki bongo mpo na kotalisa bosembo na Ye, pamba te, na tango ya kala, tango oyo akangaki motema, apesaki bato etumbu te mpo na masumu na bango.
26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he may be just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.
Nzambe asalaki bongo mpo na kotalisa bosembo na Ye na tango oyo, mpo ete Ye moko azala Sembo mpe atanga lokola moto ya sembo, moto oyo azali kondimela Yesu.
27 Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Boye, tina nini komikumisa? Tina ezali te! Na mobeko nini? Na mobeko ya misala? Te, kasi na nzela ya kondima.
28 Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Pamba te tososoli ete moto atangamaka lokola moto ya sembo na nzela kaka ya kondima, kasi na nzela ya kotosa Mobeko te.
29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
Boni, Nzambe azali kaka Nzambe ya Bayuda? Azali mpe Nzambe ya bato ya bikolo ya bapaya te? Solo, azali mpe Nzambe ya bato ya bikolo ya bapaya.
30 Seeing [it is] one God who will justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Pamba te Nzambe azali kaka moko; Ye nde akomisaka, na nzela ya kondima na bango, bato oyo bakatisa ngenga mpe bato oyo bakatisa ngenga te, bato ya sembo.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.
Boni, tobomi Mobeko likolo ya kondima? Soki moke te! Tozali kutu kolendisa yango.
