Afisawa 4
1 A matsayina na ɗan kurkuku saboda Ubangiji, ina roƙonku ku yi rayuwar da ta dace da kiran da aka yi muku.
I exhort you, therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling wherewith ye were called: —
2 Kullum ku kasance masu sauƙinkai da kuma hankali; ku zama masu haƙuri, kuna jimrewa da juna cikin ƙauna.
With all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, bearing one with another in love,
3 Ku yi ƙoƙari sosai ku kiyaye zaman ɗayan nan da Ruhu ya ba ku, ku yi haka ta wurin zaman lafiya da juna.
Giving diligence to keep—the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting-bond of peace, —
4 Dukanku jiki ɗaya ne, kuna kuma da Ruhu guda. An ba ku bege guda sa’ad da aka kira ku.
One body, and one spirit, even as ye were also called in one hope of your calling,
5 Ubangiji ɗaya, bangaskiya ɗaya, baftisma kuma ɗaya,
One Lord, one faith, one immersion,
6 Allah ɗaya Uban duka, wanda yake a bisa duka, ta wurin duka, a cikin duka kuma.
One God and Father of all—who is over all, and through all, and in all.
7 Amma ga kowannenmu an ba da alheri bisa ga yadda Kiristi ya rarraba.
To each one of you, however, hath favour been given, according to the measure of the free-gift of the Christ;
8 Shi ya sa aka ce, “Sa’ad da ya hau sama, ya bi da kamammu kamar tawagarsa ya kuma ba da baye-baye ga mutane.”
Wherefore he saith—Ascending on high, he took captivity captive, [and] gave gifts unto men.
9 (Me ake nufin da “ya hau,” in ba cewa dā ya sauka can ƙarƙashin ƙasa ba?
Now this, He ascended; what is it, —save—that he also descended into the under parts of the earth?
10 Shi wannan da ya sauka ɗin, shi ne kuma ya hau zuwa can sama, kai, gaba da sammai, don mulkinsa yă cika duniya gaba ɗaya.)
He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;
11 Saboda haka Kiristi kansa ya ba wa waɗansu baiwa su zama manzanni, waɗansu su zama annabawa, waɗansu su zama masu wa’azi, waɗansu kuma su zama fastoci, da kuma malamai.
And, he, gave—some, indeed, to be apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, shepherds and teachers, —
12 Ya yi haka don yă shirya mutanensa saboda ayyukan hidima, don a gina jikin Kiristi.
With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ;
13 Wannan zai ci gaba har sai mun zama ɗaya a cikin bangaskiya da kuma ta wurin fahimtarmu na Ɗan Allah. Sa’an nan za mu zama balagaggu, kamar yadda Kiristi yake, mu kuma zama gaba ɗaya cikakku kamar sa.
Until we all advance—into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;
14 An yi wannan kuwa don kada mu koma zama kamar yara, muna ta canja zukatanmu game da abin da muka gaskata don kawai wani ya faɗa mana wani abu dabam, ko domin wani ya yi wayo ya ruɗe mu, ya sa ƙarya ta zama kamar gaskiya.
That we may, no longer, be infants—billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching, —in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error;
15 Ya kamata kullum ƙauna tă sa mu faɗa gaskiya. Ta haka za mu yi girma a kowace hanya, mu kuma zama kamar Kiristi, wanda yake kan
But, pursuing truth—may, in love, grow into him in all things, —who is the head, Christ, —
16 dukan jiki. Shi ne ya haɗe jiki duka, ya kuma sa dukan gaɓoɓin jiki suna aiki daidai, yayinda kowace gaɓa take aikinta cikin ƙauna.
Out of whom all the body—fitly framing itself together, and connecting itself, through means of every joint of supply, by way of energising in the measure of each single part—secureth the growing of the body, unto an upbuilding of itself in love.
17 To, ina dai faɗa muku, ina kuma nace faɗa muku a cikin Ubangiji, cewa kada ku ci gaba da yin rayuwa kamar yadda Al’ummai suke yi, masu banzan tunani.
This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord: —that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk—in the vanity of their minds,
18 Suna a cikin duhu a fahimtarsu, kuma a rabe suke daga ran Allah saboda jahilcin da yake cikinsu ta dalilin taurarewar zukatansu.
Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God—by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,
19 Ba sa damu da wani abu ko mai kyau ko marar kyau. Rayukansu sun cika da kowace irin ƙazanta da haɗama.
Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed.
20 Amma ba abin da aka koya muku ke nan ba sa’ad da kuka zo ga sanin Kiristi.
Ye, however, have, not thus, learned the Christ: —
21 Da yake kun ji duka game da shi, kuka kuma koyi gaskiyar da take cikin Yesu,
If, at least, it is, him, ye have heard, and, in him, ye have been taught—even as truth is in Jesus, —
22 sai ku tuɓe tsohon mutumin nan naku da kuma rayuwarku ta dā, wadda take lalacewa saboda sha’awace-sha’awacen da suke ruɗe ku.
That ye were to strip off—as regardeth the former behaviour—the old man, who corrupteth himself according to his deceitful covetings,
23 A maimakon haka, bari Ruhu yă sabunta tunaninku da kuma halayenku.
And were to be getting young again in the spirit of your mind,
24 Ku sanya sabon halin nan da aka halitta bisa ga kamannin Allah, halin nan kuwa, yă bayyana cikin adalci, da zaman tsarki.
And were to put on the man of new mould, who, after God, hath been created in his truthful righteousness and loving kindness.
25 Saboda haka dole kowannenku yă bar yin ƙarya, yă kuma riƙa faɗa wa maƙwabcinsa gaskiya, gama dukanmu gaɓoɓi jiki ɗaya ne.
Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
26 “Cikin fushinku kada ku yi zunubi.” Kada ku bar rana ta fāɗi kuna fushi,
Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood,
27 kada kuma ku ba wa Iblis dama.
Neither be giving place unto the adversary;
28 Duk wanda yake sata, sai yă daina sata, dole kuma yă yi aiki, yă yi wani abu mai amfani da hannuwansa, don yă sami abin da zai iya raba da masu bukata.
Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, —working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have [wherewith] to be giving away to him that hath need;
29 Kada wata ƙazamar magana ta fita daga bakunanku, sai dai abin da yake da amfani don gina waɗansu bisa ga bukatunsu. Ta haka maganarku za tă zama da amfani ga masu jinta.
Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good—suited to the needful upbuilding, —that it may give benefit unto them that hear;
30 Kada kuma ku ɓata wa Ruhu Mai Tsarki na Allah rai, wanda da shi aka hatimce ku da shi don ranar fansa.
And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;
31 Ku rabu da kowane irin ɗacin rai, haushi da hasala, faɗa da ɓata suna, ku rabu da kowace irin ƙeta.
All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;
32 Ku yi alheri, ku kuma ji tausayin juna, kuna gafarta wa juna, kamar yadda a cikin Kiristi, Allah ya gafarta muku.
And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one another—even as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;
