1 Matesolonika 3

1 Chi kwina vulyo, ha tusa si woli ku i vika, tu va zezi kuti ku vena sinte ku siiwa mwisule lya Athens twenke.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

2 Tuva tumini Timoteya, muzwale wetu ni mukwetu kwa Ireza ni mwi ivangeri ya Keresite, ku mi kuza niku mi omba omba ku amana ni intumero.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

3 Tuva citi izi kuti kakwina yete a nyanganyiswe cha a masukuluko. Mu kuti inwe muvene mwizi kuti chezi tu ba vikwa ha mutendo.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

4 Cheniti, hatu vena nenwe, tuva mi rwiri piri kuti seke nitu lwale ku lyangana, mi chi va chitahali, sina ha mwizi.

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

5 Cheri ivaka, hani sana niva kusi wola ku zi zimanina, ni va tumini kuti ni zibe ku amana ni ntumero. Mwendi hamwi muliki cava liki kuku lika, mi masukuluko etu avavi a mahala.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

6 Kono Timoteya ceza kwetu kuzwa kwenu ni tu letera manzwi malotu e ntumero ni rato. Na tu rwira kuti inwe hañata mwina minahano mi lotu yetu, ni kuti mu virera ku tu vona sina neswe mutu vilaerera ku mi vona.

But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

7 Keli ivaka, mizwale, tu va ombiwa ombiwa kwenu ke ntumero yenu, mu zonse vukavo ni ku lyangana.

For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

8 Cwale hanu tu hala, hamu zimana cha ku kola mwa Simwine.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

9 Mukuti vuitumero nzi vutu wola kuha kwa Ireza chenu, cha yonse ntavo itwina nayo kwa Ireza wetu ka henu?

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

10 Masiku ni mushali tu lapera ahulu kuti mwendi mutu vone chifateho chako ni ku ha chintu chi swanela mu ntumero yenu.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

11 Ireza ni Ishetu iye mwine, ni Simwine Jesu, a namalaze inzila yetu kwenu.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

12 Simwine a mi pange ku ekeza ni ku mi kopanya mwi rato zumwi cha zumwi ni ku vonse vantu, sina mu tu pangila kwenu.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

13 A pange ku koza inkulo zenu kusa nyazahala mu ku chena havusu bwa Ireza ni Ishetu ha kwiza kwa Simwine Jesu ni vonse vakwe va jolola.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.