Juda 1
1 Juda, muhikana wa Jesu Chrisite, ni mwanche wa Jakobo, kwabo bansumpitwe, Basakiwa kwa Ireeza Fumwetu, mi babikilwe Jesu Chrisite:
To those who, having received the call, have been loved by God the Father and protected by Jesus Christ, From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James.
2 Mi chisemo ni nkozo, lato zibe zingi kwenu.
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever increasing measure.
3 Yosakiwa, niba kutabele kuku ñolela choku hazwa kutu kopanelwe, Ni swanela kuku ño kukolisa kwa ko kunyanda choku tundamena kulyila i ntumelo iba kenzi kuba lumeli bose. Bamwi bakwame bali kopenye mukati kenu.
Dear friends, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt that I must write to you at once to encourage you to fight in defense of the faith that has once for all been entrusted to the keeping of Christ’s people.
4 Aba bakwame ba swaitwe kuya kuku nyaziwa. Aba bakwame basena Ireeza basinya chisemo cha Ireeza mubukata, mi bakana Muyendisi ni Simwine, Chrisite Jesu.
For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.
5 Hanu nimi lakaleza-niha kuba bulyo maba kuzizi hande-linu Simwine aba hazi batu mwi nkanda ya Egepita, mi kuma mani mani aba shinyi abo nsena baba kuzumina.
Now I want to remind you – but you already know it all – that, though the Lord delivered the people from Egypt, yet he afterward destroyed those who refused to believe in him;
6 Ni mañiloi sena aba liwongozi mubunduna bwa mata awo, kono aba siiyi chibaka china hande chawo-Ireeza wa sumine ni mawenge akuya kusamani, mwi fifi luli, kulindila izuba lye nkatulo inkando. (aïdios g126)
and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the great day in everlasting chains and black darkness. (aïdios g126)
7 Kuswana feela sina nji Sodoma ni Gomorrah ni mileneñi iva zimbulukite, Awo alikopene mumu hupulo obushahi nikuzwila habusu nimi hupulo ye chivi. Batondeza mutala wavo vanyanda ikoto yamulilo we kuya kusamani. (aiōnios g166)
Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, punishment in eternal fire. (aiōnios g166)
8 Ili mwinzila iswana, ava mwakulota kwavo va silafaza mibili ya bo. Ba lyisa mata, mi bawamba zintu zamapa zilwisa mubuso we nkanya.
Yet in the same way these people, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the celestial beings.
9 Linu Mikaele induna ya mañiloi, haba ku kanana ni Diabulosi zomu bili wa mushe chamu kalimela, sazi uliki kuleta ikatulo ya mapa ku amana naye. Kono chowamba, “Linu Simwine aku kalimele!”
Yet even Michael, the archangel, when, in his dispute with the devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to charge him with maligning, but said merely ‘The Lord rebuke you!’
10 Linu aba bantu bawamba mapa kuzintu sonse zibasa zuwisisi. Niziba zuwisisa-chinzi zinyolozi zisa hupuli hande chezizi-izi njizona zi baba sinyi.
But these people malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.
11 Bumai kubali! Linu baba yendi mwinzila ya Kaine, hape baba bikwa mwa Balaam ma fosisa kuwana. Baba fwili mwa kora musandukili.
Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam’s love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like Korah.
12 Aba chibona balipatite beyalila mu mikiti yenu ye lato. Linu mukiti iswabisisa, balilela abo bene. Linu makope asena mezi, ahindiwa luhuho. Linu zikuni zamaliha zisena zichalantu-zifwile tobele, zi zwile kumihisi.
These are the people who are blots on your ‘love-feasts,’ when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;
13 Vaswana ili mandinda omwi wate akalihite, apanga ziswabisisa awo ene. Inkani zilyangene, linu kusiha kwe fifi kuba kubikilwe kuya kule. (aiōn g165)
they are wild sea waves, foaming with their own shame; they are ‘wandering stars,’ for which the blackest darkness has been reserved for ever. (aiōn g165)
14 Enoke, yokwana iyanza limwina kuzwilila kwa Adama, baba polofitwa ku amana nabo, Kuwamba, “Lole! Simwine ukeza ni zikiti kiti zabakwe zijolola.
To these people, as to others, Enoch, the seventh in descent from Adam, declared – ‘See! The Lord has come with his hosts of holy ones around him,
15 Ukeza kukuntenda inkatulo kuzumwi ni zumwi. Ukeza kuku kalimela bantu bose basena Ireeza chamisebezi yose iba bapangi mwinzila isali ya Ireeza, nimazwi ose mabi ababa wambi bantu bavi basena Ireeza ku amana naye.”
to execute judgment on all people, and to convict all godless people of all their godless acts, which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the harsh words which they have spoken against him, godless sinners that they are!’
16 Aba jiba kanana, batongoka, bechilila mihupulo yabo mibi. Bakuhuweleza chakuli tundubula, abo, balumba bantu kuti bawane, zibasaka.
These people are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words on their lips; and they flatter others for the sake of what they can get from them.
17 Kono inwe, yosakwa, muhupule manzi aba wambiwa kale cha muapositola wa Simwine Chirisite Jesu watu.
But you should, dear friends, recall what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 Baba wambi kwako, “Mwinako zama mani mani mukube niba nyefuli be chilila intakazo zabo zisena Ireeza.”
how they used to say to you – ‘As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.’
19 bantu kabena luhuho. Abo be fasi, mi kabena luhuho.
These are the people – animal and unspiritual – who cause divisions.
20 Kono inwe, yosakwa, mulizake inwe mubene che ntumelo i jolola, mi mulapele cho luhuho lujolola.
But you must, dear friends, build up your characters on the foundation of your most holy faith, pray under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
21 Mulibike mwi lato lya Ireeza, nikulindila i lato la Simwine Chrisite Jesu iku letela buhalo busamani. (aiōnios g166)
and keep within the love of God, while waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
22 Chisemo cheve kwabo basa zumini.
To some show pity, because they are in doubt. ‘Drag them out of the fire,’ and save them.
23 Muhaze bamwi kakuba zwisa mu mulilo. Mutoye nihaiba chizwato che nyama.
To others show pity, but with caution, hating the clothing polluted by their touch.
24 Linu kwali yenki yo wola kuti tusa kuku sawa, mi niku tuwolisa kuzimana habusu ye nkanya yakwe, nikusena kunyazahala nimwi ntabo,
To him who is able to guard you from falling, and to bring you into his glorious presence, blameless and rejoicing –
25 Kwa Ireeza yenke ni muhazi kuya ka Chrisite Jesu Simwine wetu, kube ni kanya, bulena, kubusa, ni mata, inako yose yamamani mani, linu, ni kuya kuma mani mani. Amen. (aiōn g165)
to the one God, our Savior, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, glory, majesty, power, and dominion, as it was before time began, is now, and will be for all time to come. Amen. (aiōn g165)
