1 Corinthians 7
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Lino kumakani ngimwakandilembela, “Nchibotu kuti mwaalumi atagumi mwanakazi.”
2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Pele akaambo kamasunko anchito zyiingi zyamamambe, umwi awumwi mwaalumi weelede kuba a mwnwkazi wakwe, alkwe mwanakazi abe a mwaalumi wakwe.
3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
Mwaalumi weelede kuzuzikizya mulimu wakwe akuba alulalano a mwanakazi wakwe, mbubonya oobo alakwe mwanakazi kumulimu wakwe.
4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Teensi mwanakazi uli abwaami kumubili wakwe, pele mulumi. Alimwi mwaalumi tajisi bwaami aatala amubili wakwe, pele mwanakazi nguujisi.
5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Mutakatazyanyi umwi awumwi, pele amuzuminane kuchita oobo zimwi zyiindi. Muchite oobo kuti mubike myoyo kukukomba. Eelyo mubole muswanane lubo, kuti Satani atamusunki nkaambo kakukachilwa kwanu kulijata.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
Pele ndaamba makani aya miyeyo yangu pe pe mbuli mulayizyo.
7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
Ndili kuyeya kuti woonse abe mbuli ndime. Pele umwi awumwi uli achipo chakwe kuzwa kuli Leza. Umwi uli awoyu musyobo wachipo, awumwi uulya musyobo.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
Kuli batakwetwe akuli bamukabafu ndamba kuti nchintu chibotu kuti bukkale kabatakwetwe mbuli ndime.
9 But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
Pele kuti kabatakonzyi kulijata, baleelede kukwata na kukwatwa. Nkaambo nchintu chibotu kuti bakwate na kukwatwa kwiinda kufwa amunyamunya.
10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
Lino kuli bakwete, ndamupa mulawu ooyu, - teensi ndime, pele nguMwaami: “Mwanakazi teeled kulekana amulumi wakwe.”
11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
Pele waanzana amulumi wakwe, uleelede kukkala katakwetwe kana kubwedelana a mulumi wakwe.
12 But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
Pele kuli boonse ndati - Ime, pe pe Mwaami - kuti mukwesu uli a mwanakazi utali muzumini, kuti kakkutisikene kukkala anguwe, teelede kumuleka pe.
13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
Kuti mwanakazi uli a mwaalumi utali utazumini, kuti kakkutisikene kukkala anguwe, teelede kumuleka pe.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Nkaambo mwaalumi utazumini ulasalazigwa nkambo ka mwanakazi wakwe, alakwe mwanakazi utazumini ulasalazigwa nkambo kamunyina. Abalo bana benu nibatasalali, pele lino balasalala.
15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
Pele kuti utazumini wayanda kweenda, muleke ayinke. Muchiimo chiliboobo, mukwesu na muchizi taangidwe pe kuchikonke chabo. Leza watwiita kuti tukkale muluumuno.
16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Mbobuti mbokonzya kuziba, yomwanakazi, amwi uyoofutula mwaalumi wako? Na mbobuti mbokonzya kuziba, yomwaalumi, amwi uyoofutula mwanakazi wako?
17 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
Nekubaboobo, mbuli kuti Mwaami wakapa umwi awumwi chibela chakwe, umwi awumwi mbuli Leza mbakamwiita. Ooyu ngumulayizyo wangu kumbungano zyoonse.
18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
Sa kufumbwa muntu wakali mupalulwe nakitwa kukuzumina? Teeled kusoleka kuboneka katapalwidwe. Sa kufumbwa muntu wakatapalwidwe nakitwa kukusyoma? Ooyo atapalulwi.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
Teensi kuti kupalulwa na kutapalulwa nkukujisi makani. Chijisi makani nkuswilila milawu yaLeza.
20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
Umwi awumwi akkale mbuli mbayitwa aLeza kukuzumina.
21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
Wakali muzike na Leza naakakwiita? Utalikatazyi anzizyo. Pele kuti kokonzya kwaangunuka kulaba mbubo.
22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
Ooyo wakiitwa aMwaami kalimuzike ngumwaangunuke waMwaami. Mbubonya oobo, alakwe wakali mwaangunuke nakitwa kukuzumina ngomuzike waKkilisito.
23 You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
Mwawulwa amuulo, mutachibi bazike babantu.
24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
Bakwesu, kufumbwa chiimo nchuwakabede nwakayitwa, umwi awumwi akkale aLeza.
25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
Lino kumakani abanakalindu, nsikwe mulawu uuzwa kuMwaami. Pele ndamupa miyeeyo yangu mbuliumwi, muluse lwaMwaami, akuba uusyomeka.
26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
Nkaambo kaako, ndayeya kuti nkaambo kamapenzi aaboola, nchintu chibotu kumwaalumi kuti akkale mbwabede.
27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
Sa ulangidwe kumwanakazi. Utazyanduuli kulekana. Kuti kwaangunukide kumwanakazi, utayanduuli mwanakazi.
28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
Pele kuti wakwata, tobisizye pe. Pele aabo bachita balaja mapenzi miingi anyama, pesi ndayanda kumuvuna kuli zeezi.
29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
Lino ncheechi nchingamba, bakwesu: Chiindi nchifwifwi. Kuzwa sunu kuya kunembo, aabo bakwete banakazi babe mbuli batakwete.
30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
Abaabo balili babe mbuli batalili, abaabo basekelela babe mbuli batasekeleli, abaabo bawula babe mbuli batavubide chintu.
31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Abaabo babelesya zintu zyaansi batapangiki myoyo yabo kukubelesya nzizyo. Nkaambo nyika chiimo nchilimulinchicho iya kumamanino.
32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
Ndayanda kuti mwaangunuke mumakatazyo. Mwaalumi utakwete ulalikatazizya zintu zyaMwaami, kuti abotezye Mwaami.
33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
Pele mwaalumi ukwete ulalikatazizya zintu zyaansi, kuti abotezye mukakwe -
34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
ulaanzene. Musimbi utakwetwe ulalikatazizya kuzintu zyaMwaami kuti asalale nikuba kumubili nikuba kumuuya. Pele mwanakazi uukwetwe ulalikankayizizya zintu zyaansi, kuti abotezye mulumi wakwe.
35 This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
Aaya ndawamba kuti mugwasigwe, nsiyandi kubika kakole kulindinywe. Ndaamba aaya kuti kube zyeelede zibotu, mukalitakate kuMwaami kaatakwe lunyonyoko.
36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
Kuti mpali uyeeya kuti tachitili munakalindu wakwe kabotu - kali munsi aaminyaka yakukwatwa - weelede kuchita mbayanda. Talimukubisya pe. Beelede kukwatana.
37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
Pele mwaalumi uyima akujatisya mukati kamoyo wakwe, kuti katamanikide pele ulakonzya kweendelezya kuyanda kwakwe, alimwi kuti wayeya kuchita eezi mumoyo, akkale mbwabede, ulachita kabotu.
38 So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
Elyo ooyo ukwata nakalindu ulachita kabotu, pele ooyo ulisalila kutakwata ulachita kabotu chakwiinda.
39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
Mwanakazi ulaangidwe kumulumi wakwe nachipona. Pele mulumi wakwe aafwa, waangunuka kukwatwa kufumbwa ngwayanda, pele kali muMwaami.
40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
Pele mukuyeya kwangu nchibotu loko kuti ukkale mbuli mbabede. Alimwi ndayeya kuti ndili aMuuya waLeza.
