1 Bathesalonike 4
1 Mbe eja kubhutelo, bhana bhasu, echibhasimbagilisha no kubhelembelesha mu Yesu Kristo. Lwakutyo mwalamiye amelesho okusoka kweswe na lwakutyo jibheile mu kalibhatie no kumukondelesha Nyamuanga, mu njila eyo one mulibhatega no kukola kwafu.
HENCE then, my brethren, we pray of you, and beseech of you by our Lord Jeshu, that as you have received of us how it behoveth you to walk and to please Aloha, the more to increase.
2 Kulwo kubha mumenyele na melesho- ki ganu chanyakile okulabha ku Latabhugenyi Yesu.
For you know those precepts we gave to you in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
3 Kulwo kubha kunu nikwo okwenda kwa Nyamuanga okwesibhwa kwemwe-ati mwing'ang'e no obhulomesi,
For this is the will of Aloha, your sanctification; and that you be distant from all fornication;
4 ati bhuli munu wemwe kamenya okumutunga omugasi wae omwene mu bhulengelesi ne chibhalo.
and that every man of you know to possess his vessel in sanctification and in honour,
5 Wasiga kubha no mugasi kulwa inamba yo mubhili (lwa bha Maanga bhanu bhatamumenya Nyamuanga).
and not in the passions of concupiscence, as the rest of the Gentiles who know not Aloha.
6 Asiga kubhao munu wona wona unu kambuka olubhibhi no kumunyamulila owabho ingulu yo omusango gunu. Kulwo kubha Latabhugenyi niwe owoku chisubhisha olusima ku misango jone jinu lwa kutyo chatangatile okubhakengya no kubhabhambalila.
And that you dare not transgress, and defraud the one man his brother in this matter, because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as we have also before told you and testified.
7 Kulwo kubha Latabhugenyi atachibhilikiye mu bhujabhi nawe mu bhulengelesi.
For Aloha hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto sanctification.
8 Kulwejo unu kalilema linu atakubhalema abhanu, nawe kamulema Nyamuanga, unu kabhayana Mwoyo Mwelu waye.
Therefore, whoever despiseth, not man he despiseth, but Aloha, who hath ingiven you his Holy Spirit.
9 Okulubhana ne lyenda lya bhaili, bhutalio bhukene bhwo munu wona wona owo kukwandikila, kulwo kubha mwiigisibhwe na Nyamuanga okwendana emwe abhene-la.
But concerning the love of the brethren, you need not (that I) write to you; for you yourselves are taught of Aloha to love one another.
10 Ni chimali, mwakolele ganu gone mu bhaili bhanu bhali Makedonia yona, mbe nawe echibhelembelesha, abhaili, mukole no kukilao.
And so do you to all the brethren who are in all Makedunia; but I beseech of you, my brethren, to excel.
11 Echibhelembelesha mubhe no bhulame bhwo bhwolobhe, no kwenda emilimu jemwe no kukola emilimu kwa mabhoko gemwe, lwa kutyo chabhalagiliye.
And study to be quiet and be occupied with your own employments, and work with your hands, as we have admonished you;
12 Nukole ganu koleleki mutule okulibhata kisi na muchibhalo mwabho bhanu bhali anja ne likilisha, koleleki wasiga kukeyelwako no bhukene bhwona bhwona.
that you may walk becomingly towards the outward-ones, and of man you may not need.
13 Chitakwenda emwe musombokelwe lwakutyo jitali ja kisi, emwe bhaili, ingulu ya bhanu bhamamile, koleleki mwasiga kubha no bhusulumbaye lwa bhandi bhanu bhatana bhumenyi okulubhana no mwanya gunu oguja.
BUT I wish you to know, my brethren, that for those who are asleep you should not have sorrow, as the rest of men, who have no hope.
14 Nolwo chikekilisha ati Yesu afuye no kusuluka lindi, nikwo kutyo Nyamuanga kabhaleta amwi na Yesu kwabho bhanu bhafuye mu mwene.
For if we believe that Jeshu died and arose, so also Aloha those who have slept in Jeshu will bring with him.
15 Ingulu yago echibhabhwila emwe kwo misango ja Latabhugenyi, ati eswe bhanu chili bhaanga, bhanu chilibhao mu mwanya gwo kuja kwaye Latabhugenyi, ni chimali chitakubhatangatila bhanu bhamamile munfwa.
But this we say to you by the word of our Lord, that we who remaining at the coming of our Lord, who live, will not precede those who have slept.
16 Kulwo kubha Latabhugenyi omwene alika okusoka mumele. Kaja no bhulaka bhukulu, amwi no bhulaka bhwa malaika mukulu, amwi na ing'ombi ya Nyamuanga, bhanu bhafuye mu Kristo bhalisululwa okwamba.
For our Lord himself with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief of angels, and with the trumpet of Aloha, will come down from heaven, and the dead who are in the Meshiha will arise first;
17 Okumala eswe bhanu chili bhaanga, bhanu chilibha chisigaye, chilibhuganganila bhona mu mele amwi okuja okumulamila Latabhugenyi mulutumba. Mu njila inu chilibha na Latabhugenyi nsiku jona.
and then we who remaining alive, shall be rapt with them together in clouds, to the meeting of our Lord in the expanse; and so always with our Lord shall we be.
18 Kulwejo, musilishanyega emwe abhene kwa abhene ku misango jinu.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
