1 Yohana 5
1 Wona wona unu kekilisha ati Yesu ni Kristo oyo ebhuywe na Nyamuanga. Na wona wona unu kamwenda oyo asokele ku Lata one kabhenda abhana bhaye.
Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.
2 Ku linu echimenya ati echibhenda abhana bha Nyamuanga-ungwa nichimwenda Nyamuanga no kukumisha ebhilagilo bhyaye.
By this we know that we love God’s Children — when we love God and carry out his commands.
3 Kutya nikwo echimwenda Nyamuanga ati echibhoyelo ebhilagilo bhyaye. Ne bhilagilo bhyaye ni bhyangu.
For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,
4 Kulwo kubha bhuli unu ebhuywe na Nyamuanga kachiiga echalo. Na bhunu nibhwo obhumogi bhwo kuchiiga echalo, elikilisha lyeswe.
because all that has received the new Life from God conquers the world. And this is the power that has conquered the world — our faith!
5 Niga unu achiigile echalo? Ni ulya unu kekilisha ati Yesu ni mwana wa Nyamuanga.
Who is he that conquers the world but the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 Unu niwe ejile kwa maji na isagama-Yesu Kristo. Atejilela kwa maji nawe kwa maji na isagama.
He it is whose Coming was attested by means of Water and Blood — Jesus Christ himself; not by Water only, but by Water and by Blood. And there is the Spirit also to bear testimony, and the Spirit is Truth itself.
7 Kulwo kubha bhaliwo bhasagile bhanu abhabhambalilawo:
It is a three-fold testimony —
8 Mwoyo, amaji na insagama. Abhasatu bhanu abhekilishanya. (Komelesha: emisango jinu “Lata, omusango, na Mwoyo Mwelu” Gatakubhonekana mu bhitabho ebhinu ebhya insonga ebhya kala).
that of the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood — and these three are at one.
9 Alabha echibhulamila obhubhambasi bhwa bhana-munu obhubhambasi bhwa Nyamuanga ni bhukulu kukila obhwo. kulwo kubha obhubhambasi bhwa Nyamuanga ni bhunu-ati anabhwo obhubhambasi bhunu bhuli ayei no mwana waye.
We accept the testimony of men, but God’s testimony is still stronger; and there is the testimony of God — the fact that he has already borne testimony about his Son.
10 Omwene unu kamwikilisha omwana wa Nyamuanga ali no bhubhambasi munda yaye omwene. Na wona wona unu atamwikilisishe Nyamuanga amukolele kubha mulimi, kulwo kubha atabhwikilisishe obhubhambasi bhunu Nyamuanga abhuletele okulubhililana na mwana waye.
He who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within him. He who does not believe God has made God a liar, by refusing to believe in that testimony which he has borne about his Son.
11 No obhubhambasi nibhwo bhunu— ati Nyamuanga achiyaye obhuanga bhwa kajanende, no bhuanga bhunu bhuli mu mwana waye. (aiōnios g166)
And that testimony is that God gave us Immortal Life, and that this Life is in his Son. (aiōnios g166)
12 Unu ali nage mwana ali no bhuanga. Unu atanage omwana wa Nyamuanga atana bhuanga.
He who finds the Son finds Life; he who does not find the Son of God does not find Life.
13 Nibhandikiye jinu koleleki mumenyele ati mulino bhuanga bhwa kajanende— emwe bhanu mwikilisishe lisina lyo Mwana wa Nyamuanga. (aiōnios g166)
I write this to you, that you may realise that you have found Immortal Life — you who believe in the Name of the Son of God. (aiōnios g166)
14 Na bhunu nibhwo obhubhasi bhunu chili nabhwo imbele yaye, ati alabha chikasabhwa chinu chona chona chinganiliye no kwenda kwaye, kachungwa.
And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.
15 Na kalabha echimenya ati kachungwa —chona chona chinu echimusabhwa echimenya ati chili nacho echo echisabhwa.
And if we realise that he listens to us — whatever we ask — we realise that we have what we have asked from him.
16 Kalabha omunu kamukola owabho kakola ebhikolwa bhye chibhibhi chinu chitakusila mu lufu, kumwiile okusabhwa na Nyamuanga kamuyana obhuanga. Enaika ku bhalya bhanu echibhibhi chebhwe ni chilya chinu chitakusila mu kufwa— chiliwo echibhibhi chinu echisila mu lufu— nitakwaika ati kumwiile okusabhwa ingulu ye echibhibhi echo.
If any one sees his Brother committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, he will ask, and so be the means of giving Life to him — to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a man should pray.
17 Obhwikote bhwona ni chibhibhi— mbe nawe chiliwo echibhibhi chinu chitali cha lufu.
Every wrong action is sin, and there is sin that is not deadly.
18 Echimenya ati unu ebhuywe na Nyamuanga atakukola chibhibhi. nawe unu ebhuywe na Nyamuanga kabhikwa nage kisi kajanende, no mubhibhi ulya atakutula kubhautasha.
We know that no one who has received the new Life from God lives in sin. No, he who has received the new Life from God keeps the thought of God in his heart, and then the Evil One does not touch him.
19 Echimenya ati eswe chili bha Nyamuanga na chimenyele ati echalo chona chili emwalo yo bhutunge bhwo mubhibhi ulya.
We realise that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.
20 Mbe nawe echimenya ati omwana wa Nyamuanga ejile no kuchiyana obhumenyi, ati echimumenya mwenene unu ali chimali na ati chilimo mu mwene unu ali chimali, nolwo mu mwana waye Yesu Kristo. Ni Nyamuanga we chimali no bhuanga bhwa kajanende. (aiōnios g166)
We realise, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the True God; and we are in union with the True God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the True God and he is Immortal Life. (aiōnios g166)
21 Abhana abhendwa, nimwikenge ebhisusano.
My Children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.
