1 Yohana 4
1 Alowa, leki ku huiili kila nkolo, kuiti igemi inkolo mihenge anga ize ipembenkanilye ni Itunda, ku nsoko anya kidagu idu nia uteele apembeeye mu ingu.
Dear friends, many people [who have a false message] are teaching it to people [MTY]. So do not trust every [message that someone claims/says that God’s] Spirit [MTY] [gave to him]. Instead, (test/think carefully about) the teachings that [you hear] in order to know whether they are from God or not.
2 Ku ili muku mulinga uNg'wau Ng'welu nuang'wa Itunda - kila Nkolo ni ikalapa kina uYesu Kristo uzile mu muili ingi ang'wa Itunda,
[I will tell] you how to recognize [teachings that come from] the Spirit of God: Those who affirm/say that Jesus Christ came [from God] to become a human [like us] are [teaching a message] that is from God.
3 hangi kila nkolo ni shanga ilapaa kung'wa Yesu shanga ang'wa Itunda. Iyi ingi nkolo a mukingila Kristo, naiiza mumigulye kina ipembilye, ni itungili yakondaa kutula ikoli mi ihi.
But those who do not affirm/say [that about] Jesus are not [teaching a message] from God. [They are teachers who] oppose Christ. You have heard that people like that are coming [to be among us]. Even now they are already here!
4 Unyenye ingi miang'wa Itunda, ana alowa, hangi makondyaa kuakilya kunsoko ung'wenso nukoli mukati anyu ingi mukulu kukila ung'wenso nukoli mu unkumbigulu.
As for you who are very dear to me, you belong to God, and you have refused [the false messages] that those people [teach], because [God], who enables you [to do what he wants], is (greater/more powerful) than ([Satan/the devil]), who enables (godless people/people who conduct their lives in a way that displeases God) [MTY].
5 Ni anso ingi a unkumbigulu, ku lulo niakukiligitya ingi ka unkumbigulu, nu unkumbigulu wiategeelya.
As for [those who are teaching what is false], they are (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY]. Because of that, they teach what (godless people/people whose lives are displeasing to God) [MTY] want to hear. That is why the (godless people/people whose lives displease God) [MTY] listen to them.
6 Usese ingi kiang'wa Itunda, uNg'wenso numulingile Itunda wikutegeelya usese, uNg'wenso ni shanga wang'wa Itunda shanga wikutegeelya. Mu ili kilingaa i nkolo a tai ni nkolo a uteele.
As for us [(exc)], [because] we belong to God, whoever (knows/has a close relationship with) God listens to us. [But] those who do not belong to God do not listen to us. That is how we can know whether [the things that people are teaching] [MTY] are true or whether they are false, and deceiving [people].
7 Alowa, kilowe sese ku sese, ku iti u ulowa ingi wang'wa Itunda, ni kila ung'wi nuilowaa utugilwe ni Itunda nu kumulinga Itunda.
Dear friends, we must love each other, because God [enables us] to love [each other], and because those who love [their fellow believers] have become God’s children and (know/have a close relationship with) him.
8 uNg'wenso nishanga wilowaa shanga umulingile Itunda, kunsoko Itunda ingi Ulowa.
God’s [nature] is to love [all people]. So those who do not love [their fellow believers] do not (know/have a relationship with) God.
9 Mu ili ulowa nuang'wa Itundaai ukunukuwe mukati itu, kina Itunda ai umulagiite ung'wana nuakwe nuing'wene mu unkumbigulu iti kikie kukiila Ng'wenso.
I will tell you how God has shown us [that he] loves us: He sent (his only Son/the only one who was also God) [to live] on the earth to enable us to live [eternally] as a result of [our trusting in what] he [accomplished for us by dying for us].
10 Mu ulowa uwu, shanga kina ai kumuloilwe Itunda, kuiti ng'wenso ai ukuloilwe, nu kumulagiilya u ng'wana nuakwe watule usukiilya nua milandu itu.
[And God] has shown [us what it means to] love [another person]: [It does] not [mean] that we loved God, but [it means] that God loved us and sent (his Son/the one who was also God) to sacrifice [his life] in order that [our sins might be forgiven] {[he might forgive] our sins}.
11 Alowa, anga ize Itunda ai ukuloilwe usese, ku u kutakiwe kilowa sese ku sese.
Dear friends, since God loves us like that, we certainly ought to love each other!
12 Kutili ga nung'wi nai umihengile Itunda, Anga kilowe sese ku sese, Itunda wikiie mukati itu nu ulowa nuakwe wikondaniiligwa mukati itu.
No one has ever seen God. [Nevertheless], if we love each other, [it is evident that] God lives within us and that we love others just like he [intends/wants us to do].
13 Mu ili kulingile kina kikiie mukati akwe nu ng'wenso mukati itu, kunsoko ukinkiiye uNg'wau Ng'welu nuakwe.
[I will tell you] how we can be sure that we have a close relationship with God and that God is within us: He has put his Spirit within us.
14 Hangi kihengaa nu kukuila kina uTata umulagiiye uNg'wana kutula muguni nua unkumbigulu.
We [apostles] have seen (God’s Son/the one who is also God), and [we tell people] that the Father sent him to save [the people in] the world [MTY] [from being punished for their sins].
15 Kila nuilapaa kina uYesu ingi ng'wana wang'wa Itunda, Itunda wikiie mukati akwe nu ng'wenso mukati ang'wa Itunda.
[So] those who affirm/say that Jesus is the (Son of/one who is also) God, God is within them, and they have a close relationship with God.
16 Hangi kulingile nu ku uhuiila u ulowa nu ukete Itunda mukati itu. Itunda ingi ulowa, nu ng'wenso wikiie mukati a ulowa nu kikiie mukati ang'wa Itunda, nu Itunda wikiie mukati akwe.
We have experienced how God loves us and we believe that he loves us. [As a result, we love others. Because] God’s [nature] is to love people, those who continue to love [others] have a close relationship with God, and God has a close relationship with them.
17 Mu ulowa uwu wakondaniiligwa mu kati itu, iti kutule nu ugimya luhiku nula ulamulwa, kunsoko anga ung'wenso nuili, nu sese uu kili mu unkumbigulu uwu.
We [should] love others completely. And if we do that, when the time comes for [him to] judge us, we will be confident [that he will not condemn us] (OR, [that we have a close relationship with him]). [We will be confident of that] because of our [conducting our lives] in this world as Christ did.
18 Kutili u woa mukati a ulowa. Kuiti u ulowa nu ukondile wiuguma uwoa kunzi, ku nsoko u woa wikigendi nu ulamulwa. Kuiti ung'wenso nuitumbaa shanga ukondaniigwe mu ulowa.
We will not be afraid [of God] if we [truly] love [him], because those who love [God] completely cannot possibly be afraid [of him]. [We would be] afraid only [if we thought that he would] punish us. So those who are afraid [of God certainly] are not loving [God] completely.
19 Kilowa kunsoko Itunda ai ukuloilwe hanza.
We love [God and our fellow believers] because God loved us first.
20 Anga ize ung'wi wikaligitya, “Numuloilwe Itunda” kuiti umubipiwe u muluna nuakwe, ingi muteele. Kunsoko ni shanga umuloilwe u muluna nuakwe, nuimihengaa, shanga ujumile kumulowa Itunda ni shanga wimihenga.
[So] those who say “I love God” but hate a fellow believer are lying. Those who do not love one of their fellow believers, whom they have seen, certainly cannot be loving God, whom they have not seen.
21 Hangi ili lilo ilagiilyo ni kulikete kupuma kitalakwe: Wihi muimulowa Itunda, utakiwe kumulowa ga nu muluna nuakwe.
Keep in mind that this is what God has commanded us: If we love him, we must also love our fellow believers.
