1 Batesalonika 4

1 Bandeko, mpo na oyo etali makambo mosusu, tolakisaki bino ndenge nini bosengeli kotambola mpo na kosepelisa Nzambe, mpe yango nde bozali kosala. Kasi sik’oyo, tozali kosenga na bino mpe kotinda bino na makasi, kati na Nkolo Yesu, ete bokoba kosalaka bongo koleka.

Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.

2 Pamba te boyebi mitindo oyo topesaki bino na Kombo ya Nkolo Yesu.

For you know what promises we gave unto you through our Lord Jesus.

3 Nzambe alingi ete bozalaka bule tango nyonso: bokimaka pite;

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

4 moko na moko kati na bino asengeli koyeba kobatela nzoto na ye kati na bosantu mpe lokumu,

that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

5 asengeli koboya kozala mowumbu ya baposa ya nzoto lokola Bapagano oyo bayebi Nzambe te,

not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

6 asengeli mpe te kokosa to kosala ndeko na ye mabe kati na makambo oyo etali bonzoto, pamba te Nkolo akopesa etumbu na bato nyonso oyo basalaka mabe ya lolenge wana, ndenge toyebisaki mpe tokebisaki bino liboso.

that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

7 Nzambe abengaki biso te mpo ete tozala bato ya mbindo, kasi mpo ete tobika bomoi na biso na lolenge ya bule.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 Boye moto oyo atosaka mitindo yango te atiolaka moto te kasi atiolaka nde Nzambe oyo apesaki bino Molimo Mosantu na Ye.

Therefore the one rejecting (sanctification), does not reject man, but God, who indeed gives to you his Holy Spirit.

9 Mpo na oyo etali bolingo kati na bino, ezali lisusu na tina te ya kokomela bino, pamba te Ye moko Nzambe ateyaki bino kolingana bino na bino.

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;

10 Ezali mpe bolingo yango nde bosengeli kotalisa epai ya bandeko nyonso kati na Masedwane mobimba. Mpe bandeko, tozali kosenga na bino ete bokoba kosalaka bongo koleka,

for you indeed are doing the same thing unto all the brethren in all Macedonia. And we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more and more;

11 ete bolukaka kobika bomoi na bino kati na kimia; mpe tika ete moto nyonso atalaka makambo na ye moko mpe aliaka na motoki na ye moko, ndenge kaka toyebisaki bino yango,

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

12 mpo ete, mokolo na mokolo, Bapagano bamemia bino, mpe mpo ete bobika te bomoi na bino na sima ya mokongo ya moto.

in order that you may walk about circumspectly toward the aliens, and you may have need of nothing.

13 Bandeko, toboyi bozanga boyebi na tina na bato oyo bakufa, mpo ete bozala na mawa te lokola bamosusu oyo bazangi elikya.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep; in order that you may not sorrow, even as those having no hope.

14 Pamba te ndenge tondimaka ete Yesu akufaki mpe asekwaki, ndenge mpe tondimaka ete Nzambe akomema, na nzela ya Yesu mpe elongo na Ye, bato oyo bakufa kati na Ye.

For if we believe that Jesus died and is risen, so also will God bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 Kolanda liloba na Nkolo, tala makambo oyo tozali koyebisa bino: biso ba-oyo tokotikala na bomoi kino na tango oyo Nkolo akoya, tokokende te liboso ya bato oyo bakufa;

For we speak this to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left unto the coming of the Lord, can not anticipate those who are asleep,

16 pamba te tango kaka mitindo ekopesama na nzela ya koganga ya mokonzi ya ba-anjelu mpe ya kelelo ya Nzambe, Ye moko Nkolo akokita wuta na Lola mpe bato oyo basila kokufa kati na Klisto bakosekwa bato ya liboso.

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 Sima na yango, biso bato oyo tokozala na bomoi na tango yango tokomemama elongo na bango kati na mapata mpo na kokutana na Nkolo, na likolo; mpe na bongo, tokozala elongo na Nkolo libela na libela.

then we who are alive, who are left, will at the same time along with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord.

18 Yango wana, bolendisanaka na maloba oyo.

So comfort one another with these words.