1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.
Mbuli mbumuzi lwanu, bakwesu, kuti kuza kwesu kuli ndinywe tekwali kwabiyo.
2 But, as you will remember, after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition.
Naabi mbuli mbumuzi, mikuba chiindi twakafwabisigwa akujatwa chakuusa kuFilipi, twakasima muliLeza wesu kwambula mumakani mabotu aaLeza mukombozeka kwinji.
3 For our preaching was not grounded on a delusion, nor prompted by mingled motives, nor was there fraud in it.
Nkambo kakukombelezya kwesu tetwaka zwa kukubisya, mbuli nakwakazwa kukusalalamikuba kulweeno.
4 But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.
Kwinda mbuli mbutwakazumininwa aLeza, akusyomeka kumakani mabotu, lino tulambula, chakutabotezya muntu, pesi Leza ngonguwe uyoolanga myoyo yesu.
5 For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;
Elyo takwe nitwaka belesya majwi akuyosya, mbuli mbumuzi, na amuzee zowakuvumba butangazu Leza mukkamboni wesu.
6 nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.
Na tuyandula bulemu buzwa kubantu, nikuba kuzwa kulindinywe, na ba apositolo aabami.
7 On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.
Ikwinda, twakaba batete akti kanumbuli banyina bawumbulizya bana babo.
8 Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
Munzila eeyi twakali kumuyanda. Twakabotelwa kwabana andinywe kakutali kumani aaLeza luzutu pesi alimwi abuumi bwesu. Mbuli kuti mwakati mwaba bayandwi kulindiswe.
9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night and day so as not to become a burden to any one of you, we came and proclaimed among you God's Good News.
Mbuli mbumuyeya, bakwesu, milimu yesu amamanino. Mansiku asikati twakali kubeleka kuti tuatabi mukuli kulumwi awumwi akati kanu. Mbuli mbutwaka kambawuka makani mabotu aaLeza.
10 You yourselves are witnesses--and God is witness--how holy and upright and blameless our dealings with you believers were.
Inywe mulibakkamboni, alimwi aaLeza mbuli mbwasalala, mbwaluleme, achakutaba amulandu, yakuba imponeno kuli ndinywe nimusyoma.
11 For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,
Munzila njiyeeyo mulizi mbutwakalibede kuli umwi awumwi wanu, mbuli wisi kubana bakwe, ndamusiya akumumbulizya akumukombelezya
12 and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.
kuti mweende munzila iyeelede yaLeza, umwita kubwami akubulemu.
13 And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.
Nkambo kakaako alimwi tilumba Leza lyoonse, kuti na mwatambula ijwi lyaLeza eelyo ndimwakamvwa kuzwa kuli ndiswe, temwakalitambula anga lyakazwa kumunt, pesi mbuli akakasimpe, ndijwi lyaLeza alimwi lila aamulimui mulindinywe nimusyoma.
14 For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God in Christ Jesus which are in Judaea; seeing that you endured the same ill-treatment at the hands of your countrymen, as they did at the hands of the Jews.
Alimwi bakwesu mwakaba basikwiiya bambungano zyaLeza zili muJudiya muliKkilisito Jesu. Nkikaako alimwi mwakafwabisigwa muzintu zikozyene kuzwa kubantu banyika yanu, mbuli mbubakachita kuzwa kumaJuda.
15 Those Jewish persecutors killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and drove us out of their midst. They are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind;
Bakajaya antoomwe Mwami Jesu abansimi alimwi bakatutandila anze. tababotezyi Leza. Kwinda, Kukazyanya abantu boonse.
16 for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.
Batukasya kwambula abaMasi kuti bafutulwe. Impindu njakuti lyoonse bakali kuzuzya zibi zyabo kusikila kumamanino.
17 But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face.
Pesi iswe bakwesu, twakali pambukene andinywe kwachiindi chifwifwi mubuntu peepe mumoyo. Twakalipeda loko, achiyandisyo chipati kuti tubone masyu anu.
18 On this account we wanted to come to you--at least I Paul wanted again and again to do so--but Satan hindered us.
Mbokunga twakali kuyanda kusika kulindinywe - ichonzyo me - Pawulo, lumwi alubo - pesi Satani wakatwimikizya.
19 For what is our hope or joy, or the crown of which we boast? Is it not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His Coming?
Nkaambo ninzi bulangizi bwesu na kubotelwa, na musini wakulisumpula kunembo lyaMwami Jesu kukuboola kwakwe? Tensi nduwe?
20 Yes, you are our glory and our joy.
Mbokunga uli bulemu, alukondo lwesu.
