Hebrews 12
1 Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Kwahiyo, kwa kuwa tumezungukwa na wingu kubwa la mashaidi, na tutupe kila kitu kinacho tulemea pamoja na dhambi ambayo inatuzingira kwa urahisi. Tupige mbio kwa saburi katika mashindano yaliyowekwa mbele yetu.
2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Tuyaelekeze macho yetu kwa Yesu, aliye mwanzilishi na mwenye kutimiliza imani yetu, ambaye kwa ajili ya furaha iliyowekwa mbele yake alistahmili msalaba, akiidharau aibu yake, na akakaa chini mkono wa kulia wa kiti cha enzi cha Mungu.
3 For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
Maana mtafakarini yeye aliye stahimili maneno ya chuki kutoka kwa wenye dhambi, dhidi yake mwenyewe ili kwamba msije mkachoka au kuzimia mioyo yenu.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Hamjataabika au kuteseka mkishindana na dhambi kiasi cha kuishiwa damu.
5 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
Tena mmesahau kule kutiwa moyo ambako kunawaelekeza kama watoto wa kiume: “Mwanangu, usiyachukuwe kwa wepesi marudia ya Bwana, wala usikate tamaa unapo rekebishwa na yeye.”
6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Kwa kuwa Bwana humrudi yeyote ambaye anampenda, na humwadhibu kila mwana ambaye humpokea.
7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
Stahimili majaribu kama kurudiwa. Mungu hushughulika nanyi kama anavyoshughulika na watoto, maana ni mtoto yupi ambaye baba yake hawezi kumrudi?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
Lakini kama hakuna kurudiwa, ambako sisi sote tunashiriki, basi ninyi ni haramu na si watoto wake.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
Zaidi ya yote, tulikuwa na baba zetu kidunia wa kuturudi, na tuliwaheshimu. Je haitupasi hata zaidi kumtii Baba wa kiroho na kuishi?
10 For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Kwa hakika baba zetu walituadhibu kwa miaka michache kama ilivyoonekana sawa kwao, lakini Mungu hutuadhibu kwa faida yetu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hakuna adhabu inayofurahisha kwa wakati huo. Huwa na maumivu. Hata hivyo, baadaye huzaa tunda la amani ya utauwa kwa wale waliofundishwa nayo.
12 Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Kwa hiyo inueni mikono yenu iliyolegea na kufanya magoti yenu yaliyo dhaifu kuwa yenye nguvu tena;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
nyosheni mapito ya nyayo zenu, ili kwamba yeyote aliye mlemavu hataongozwa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Tafuteni amani na watu wote, na pia utakatifu ambao bila huo hakuna atakayemwona Bwana.
15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
Muwe waangalifu ili kwamba asiwepo atakayetengwa mbali na neema ya Mungu, na kwamba lisije shina la uchungu litakalochipuka na kusababisha shida na kukengeusha wengi.
16 lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
Angalieni kuwa hakuna zinaa au mtu asiye mtauwa kama vile Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo mmoja aliuza haki yake ya kuzaliwa.
17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
Kwa kuwa mnajua kwamba baadaye, alipotamani kurithi baraka, alikataliwa, kwa sababu hakupata fursa ya kutubu pamoja na baba yake, hata ingawa alitafuta sana kwa machozi.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
Kwa kuwa hamkuja katika mlima ambao unaweza kuguswa, Mlima unaowaka moto, giza, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
Hamkuja kwa sauti za tarumbeta, au kwa maneno yatokanayo na sauti ambayo ilisababisha kila wasikiao wasiombe neno lolote kusemwa kwao.
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
Kwa kuwa hawakuweza kuvumilia kile kilichoamuliwa: “Ikiwa hata mnyama agusaye mlima, lazima apigwe kwa mawe.”
21 So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
Ya kutisha zaidi aliyoyaona Musa alisema, “Nimeogopa sana kiasi cha kutetemeka”.
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Badala yake, mmekuja mlima Sayuni na katika mji wa Mungu aliye hai, Yerualem ya mbinguni, na kwa malaika elfu kumi wanaosherehekea.
23 to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Mmekuja katika kusanyiko la wazaliwa wa kwanza wote waliosajiliwa mbinguni, kwa Mungu hakimu wa wote, na kwa roho za watakatifu ambao wamekamilishwa.
24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
Mmekuja kwa Yesu mpatanishi wa agano jipya, na kwa damu iliyonyunyizwa ambayo hunena mema zaidi kuliko damu ya Habili.
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Angalia kuwa usije ukamkataa mmoja ambaye anenaye. Kwa kuwa kama hawakuepuka walipomkataa mmoja aliye waonya duniani, kwa hakika hatutaepuka ikiwa tutageuka mbali kutoka kwa yule atuonyaye kutoka mbinguni.
26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
Kwa wakati huo sauti yake ilitikisa dunia. Lakini sasa ameahidi na kunena, “Bado mara nyingine tena sitatikisa dunia pekee, bali mbingu pia.”
27 This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
Maneno haya, “Mara moja tena,” inaonesha kutoweshwa kwa vitu vile vitetemeshwavyo, hivi ni, vitu vile ambavyo vimeumbwa, ili kwamba vile vitu visivyotetemeshwa vibakie.
28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
Kwa hiyo, tupokee ufalme ambao hautetemeshwi, tufurahi katika hali ya kumwabudu Mungu kwa kukubali pamoja na kunyenyekea katika kicho,
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
kwa maana Mungu wetu ni moto ulao.
