Jan Tikpiali 4

1 n buakaaba, yin da dugi mani yaaba kuli n tua ke bi pia Utienu Fuoma po, ama yin biigi la ki bandi bi yaa tie Utienu yaaba. kelima bisawali pua - fadanba boncianla cua li ŋandilinni.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but put the spirits to the test to see whether they are from God; for many false teachers have gone out into the world.

2 line ba teni yin bandi yua n pia Utienu Fuoma, yua n tuo ke Jesu kilisiti cua ki tie nisaalo kuli pia Utienu Fuoma.

The test by which you may recognize the Spirit of God is that every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come as man is from God,

3 yua n nia kaa tuo Jesu kuli, waa pia Utienu fuoma, ama o pia kilisiti - yeka yama po. nani yin den gbadi ke yua baa cua yeni, baa moala o ye ŋanduna nni.

and that no spirit is from God which does not acknowledge this about Jesus. Such is the spirit of the anti-Christ; of whose coming you have heard, and it is already in the world.

4 yinba a biwaala, yi tie Utienu yaabe! yi paadi ba, kelima yua ye yi ninni, paalu cie yua n ye ŋandunanni.

As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

5 ban woni, tie ŋanduna yaabe, lani teni ke bi maama tie ŋanduna yaama, ke ŋanduna yaaba mo cengi ba.

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

6 tinba wani tie Utienu yaabe, yua n bani Utienu kuli cengi ti maama - yua kaa tie Utienu yua mo kan cengi ti maama: lani n teni ke ti bani imoamoani fuoma leni mi tuofaama gagidima.

The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

7 n buakaaba, tin ya bua mani ti yaba, kelima mi buama ña Utienu kane, yua n pia mi buama mo kuli, Utienu n mali o, ke o bani Utienu mo.

Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know God.

8 yua kaa pia buama kuli, naa bani Utienu, kelima Utienu tie buama.

He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

9 Utienu den doagidi ti po o buama, kelima o den soani o bonjayenyenga ŋanduna nni ke tin yaa pia li miali o ninni.

God's love for us has been manifested in that He has sent His only Son into the world so that we may have Life through Him.

10 mi buama naa tie ke tinba ka bua Utienu, ama ke wani n bua ti, ki soani o Bijua ke o tua i candanbaani padili ti ya tuonbiadi po.

This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

11 n buakaala, Utienu ya bua ti yeni, li pundi ti moko n bua ti yaba.

Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 o ba kuli daa la Utienu, ama ti ya bua tiyaba, Utienu ye ti niinni, ke o buama mo dagidi ti niini cain.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

13 ti bani ke ti ye o niinni, ke o mo ye ti niinni, kelima o puni ti o fuoma.

We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.

14 tinba wani la, ki tieni siedi, ke baa soani o Bijua ke o tie ŋanduna candaano.

And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15 yua n tuo ke Jesu tie Utienu Bijua kuli, Utienu ye o niinni, o moko ye Utienu ya niinni.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God--God continues in union with him, and he continues in union with God.

16 tinba wani bandi Utienu n pia ya buama ti po, ti dugi mi po mo. Utienu tie buama, yua nye li buama nni kuli, ye Utienu nni, ke Utienu moko ye o niinni.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

17 wan tie maama, ti moko tie yene ŋanduna nni, yene ke mi buama ŋani cain ti niinni, ke tin ya ti pia lipapaali li bujiali daali.

Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world.

18 jawaandi naa ye buama nni, ama ya buama n ŋani cain deli ki ñandi ti jawaandi kelima ti jawaandi n pia yua jie u cuonu yo. ti jawaandi n pia yua daa pia mi buama ke mi dagidi o niinni.

Love has in it no element of fear; but perfect love drives away fear, because fear involves pain, and if a man gives way to fear, there is something imperfect in his love.

19 tinba wani, ti bua o kelima wani n den kpa bua ti.

We love because God first loved us.

20 yua n tua: ke o bua Utienu, ki nan nani o kpiilo, tie tuofadaano, kelima yua n ki bua wan n nua o kpiilo yua, baa ga lede ki bua Utienu, yua ke o nua?

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

21 ti baa o kani ya balimaama n tie na: li pundi ke yua n bua Utienu, n bua o kpiilo moko.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.