Ephesians 5
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as His dear children.
Lanwani yin ya ŋua mani U Tienu fuuli nani o bibuadimu yeni.
2 And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
Yin ya ye leni yaba leni mi buama nani Kilisiti n den bua ti maama yeni ki puni o yuli U Tienu ki tua yaa paabu leni ya padili ya nuulu n mani.
3 But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.
Yin da tuo mi conconma maama leni majoagindi buolu ba kuli bi mi ligibuama maama n ña yi siiga ba waamu, kelima laa dagidi yinba bi nigagidiŋanba po.
4 Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks.
Yin yaa kubi mani yi yula yi maama nni ki da maadi mi cacaginmaama leni mi gaadi maama leni o faajibiado kuli. Ama yin yaa tuondi mani U Tienu.
5 For be well assured that no fornicator or immoral person and no money-grubber--or in other words idol-worshipper--has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
Yin bandi mani ke ba niyendo yua n tie mi conconma daano leni yua n tiendi ti joagindi leni yua n bua i ligi ke li tie opo nani i buli ŋoadima yeni, kan ba U Tienu leni Kilisiti diema ŋalimani.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.
Oba kuli n da boandi yi leni mi mafanma. Li tie lani yaa po yo ke U Tienu pabienli baa cua yaaba n yie o kuli po.
7 Therefore do not become sharers with them.
Lani yaapo yin da pia ŋantaado ba kuli leni ba.
8 There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.
Yi den kpa ye li biigili nni moala yi tie mi yenma O diedo nni, ya cuoni mani nani mi yenma bila yeni.
9 Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--
Kelima mi yenma n ba luoni yaa bonluonkaala tie li ŋanbili; mi ŋanma, mi teginma leni i moamoani.
10 and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.
Yin biigi ki bandi yaala n baa mani O diedo po,
11 Have nothing to do with the barren unprofitable deeds of darkness, but, instead of that, set your faces against them;
ki da pia ŋantaado ba kuli leni li biigili tuona, yaa n kaa pia fuoma, ama yin waani ke a bia.
12 for the things which are done by these people in secret it is disgraceful even to speak of.
Kelima li pia ife, ba ki maadi ban tiendi yaala ŋasiili nni.
13 But everything can be tested by the light and thus be shown in its true colors; for whatever shines of itself is light.
Bi ya doagidi laa niba n tieni ya bonbiadila mi yenma nni, mi yenma baa doagidi lan bia maama kelima mi yenma doagidi li bonla kuli.
14 For this reason it is said, "Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you."
Lani yaapo ke li yedi ŋan fundi fini yua n goa, ŋan fii bi tinkpiba siiga. Kilisiti baa yendi apo.
15 Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.
Lani yaapo, yin fangi mani yi yula leni yi tagi n tie maama. yin da tie nani bi yanluodanba, ama yin yaa tie nani bi yanfodanba yeni.
16 Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.
Yin da u yogunu kelima yaa dana n tie na bia.
17 On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.
Lani yaapo yin da tie yanluodanba yin ya fani mani ki moandi ki bandi o diedo yanbuama.
18 Do not over-indulge in wine--a thing in which excess is so easy--
Yin da ño mi daama ki gaadi, li baa teni yin joagini ama yin yaa gbie leni U Tienu Fuama yua.
19 but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord.
Lani, yi baa maadi leni yi yaba ki togidi Pisominba leni yaa yani n pagi U Tienu, leni U Tienu fuoma yua n gobidi yi ke yi yiini ya yani. Yaa yiini mani ki pagi O diedo leni yi pala kuli.
20 Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Yaa tuondi mani U Tienu yua n tie Baa yogunu kuli li bonla kuli po ti diedo Jesu kilisiti yeli po.
21 and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Yin ya miindi mani yi yula yi yaba kani kelima yin pia Kilisiti po yaa fangili yaapo.
22 Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord;
Yinba bi puoba, yua kuli n yaa miindi o yuli o calo kani nani wan miidi o yuli O diedo kani maama.
23 because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.
Kelima o joa tie opua yudaano nani kilisiti n tie wan yini yaaba yudaano maama yaaba n tie o gbannandi wani n tie bi candaano.
24 And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands.
Nani kilisiti n yini yaaba n miindi bi yula O diedo kani maama, li pundi ke bi puoba n yaa miindi bi yula bi ciaba kani li bonla kuli nni.
25 Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;
Yinba bi jaba yua kuli n yaa bua opua nani Kilisiti n den bua wan yini yaaba maama ki puni o yuli ki kpe bi po.
26 in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,
O den tieni yeni ki baa ŋuudi ki ŋanbi ba leni mi ñima leni U Tienu maama,
27 that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished.
ki teni ban pundi ki sedi o kani ki pia ti kpiagidi kaa pia joagindiba leni golimaba leni yaala n gundi kuli. Ama ban gagidi ki yaa ŋani cain kaa pia ban baa fidi ki kuli leni yaala.
28 So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Li pundi ke bi podanba moko n yaa bua bi puoba nani ban bua bi yula maama yeni. Yua n bua opua kuli bua o yuli.
29 For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church;
Kelima oba naa nani o gbannanda, ama o dindi ti, ki kubi ti, nani kilisiti moko n kubi wan yini yaaba maama.
30 because we are, as it were, parts of His Body.
Kelima ti mo tie o yaa gbannandi buolu yo.
31 "For this reason a man is to leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be as one."
Li diani: li tie lani yaapo ke o joa baa ña leni o naa kani ki loli o yuli leni opua bani niba lie yeni n tua gbannanyendi.
32 That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church.
Line n tie yaa bondoaginkaala n yaba n maadi laa maama Kilisiti leni wan yini yaaba yaa po yo.
33 Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.
Li mayuli yinba yaa po tie ke joa kuli n yaa bua opua nani wan bua o yuli maama, pua kuli mo n yaa fangi o calo.
