2 Bakolinto 11
1 Bandeko, nabondeli bino: boyikela nanu oyo emonani lokola bozoba na ngai mpiko! Iyo, boyikela ngai mpiko.
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Mpo na bino, natondi na zuwa kowuta na Nzambe. Nabalisaki bino na mobali moko kaka, Ye nde Klisto, lokola elenge mwasi oyo ayebi nanu nzoto ya mibali te mpe azali peto.
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Messiah.
3 Nzokande, nazali kobanga ete makanisi na bino ebeba mpe epengwisa bino mosika na nzela ya solo mpe ya peto na miso ya Klisto, ndenge nyoka ekosaki Eva na mayele na yango ya mabe.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
4 Pamba te bozali kondima ete songolo aya koteya bino Yesu mosusu oyo akeseni na Yesu oyo biso toteyaki bino; bozali mpe kondima kozwa molimo mosusu oyo ekeseni na Molimo oyo boyambaki to mateya oyo ekeseni na Sango Malamu oyo bondimelaki!
For if he who comes preaches another Yeshua whom we didn’t proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5 Nzokande, nakanisi ete nazali moke te na miso ya bantoma oyo bamimonaka ete bazali minene.
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best emissaries.
6 Nakoki solo komonana lokola moto oyo ayebi nanu te koloba malamu, kasi nazali na boyebi; mpe tolakisaki bino yango polele na banzela mpe na makambo nyonso.
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7 Boni, nasalaki mabe ndenge namikitisaki mpo ete bino botombwama, wana nateyaki bino Sango Malamu ya Nzambe?
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8 Nazwaki mbongo kowuta na Mangomba mosusu lokola lisungi na bango, wana nazalaki kokokisa lotomo na ngai kati na bino.
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9 Tango nazalaki epai na bino, namemisaki moto moko te mokumba na ngai, atako nazalaki kokelela. Pamba te bandeko oyo bawutaki na Masedwane bapesaki ngai biloko nyonso oyo nazalaki na yango na bosenga. Mpe nazalaki komibatela malamu mpo ete namemisa bino mokumba na ngai te; mpe nakokoba kaka komibatela mpo na likambo yango.
When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10 Lokola solo ya Klisto ezali kati na ngai, moto moko te kati na etuka ya Akayi akobotola ngai lokumu yango.
As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Mpo na nini nalobi bongo? Mpo nalingaka bino te? Nzambe ayebi ete nalingaka bino!
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 Mpe nakokoba kosala oyo nazali kosala sik’oyo, mpo na kopekisa bato oyo bazali koluka nzela ya komikokanisa na biso kati na makambo oyo bazali komikumisa na yango.
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
13 Pamba te bato ya lolenge wana bazali bantoma ya lokuta, bazali bakosi oyo bazali komikomisa lokola bantoma ya Klisto.
For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers, masquerading as Messiah’s emissaries.
14 Ezali likambo ya kokamwa te, pamba te Satana mpe amikomisaka lokola anjelu ya pole.
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15 Ezali likambo ya kokamwa te soki basali na ye mpe bazali komikomisa lokola basali ya Nzambe ya sembo. Kasi suka na bango ekozala kolanda misala na bango.
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 Nazongeli lisusu: tika ete moto moko te azwa ngai lokola moto ya liboma! Kasi soki bolingi bongo, boyamba ngai lokola moto ya liboma mpo ete ngai mpe namikumisa mwa moke.
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17 Makambo oyo nalingi koloba, nakoloba yango te ndenge Nkolo alingi, kasi nakoloba yango lokola moto ya liboma, mpe nazali na elikya ete nakozwa nzela ya komikumisa.
That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Lokola bato mingi bazali komikumisa na tina na makambo ya mokili, ngai mpe nakomikumisa.
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19 Bino oyo bozali bato ya bwanya, bozali kondima na esengo nyonso bato ya maboma.
For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20 Bozali penza kondima ete bato bakomisa bino bawumbu, babotola bozwi na bino, banyokola bino, bamonela bino, babeta bino na bilongi!
For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
21 Nalobi yango na soni ete tozalaki penza babolole mpo na komitika bongo. Nzokande, makambo oyo bato mosusu balingi komikumisa na tina na yango —nazali koloba lokola moto ya liboma— ngai mpe nakoki komikumisa na tina na yango.
To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 Bazali Ba-Ebre? Ngai mpe nazali Mo-Ebre. Bazali bana ya Isalaele? Ngai mpe nazali mwana ya Isalaele! Bazali bakitani ya Abrayami? Ngai mpe nazali mokitani ya Abrayami.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23 Bazali basali ya Klisto? —Nazali koloba lokola moto ya liboma— Ngai naleki bango. Pamba te nasalaki makasi penza, nakotaki mbala mingi na boloko, babetaki ngai mingi, nakutanaki na makama ya kufa mbala mingi.
Are they servants of Messiah? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24 Mbala mitano, Bayuda babetaki ngai bafimbu tuku misato na libwa;
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25 mbala misato, babetaki ngai banzete; mbala moko, babambaki ngai mabanga; mbala misato, nazindaki na mayi; nasalaki mokolo moko mpe butu moko kati na ebale monene.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26 Mbala na mbala, nazalaki kosala mibembo; nakutanaki na makama ya bibale, makama liboso ya bato mabe, makama liboso ya bandeko na ngai ya ekolo moko, makama liboso ya Bapagano, makama kati na engumba, makama kati na esobe, makama kati na ebale monene, mpe makama liboso ya bandeko ya lokuta.
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27 Solo nasalaki misala makasi mpe ya pasi penza; mbala mingi, nalalaki pongi te, nazangaki bilei ya kolia mpe mayi ya komela, nakilaki bilei, nanyokwamaki na malili, mpe nazangaki bilamba ya kolata.
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Longola makambo nyonso oyo etikali, mokumba na ngai ya mokolo na mokolo ezalaki: komitungisa na tina na Mangomba nyonso.
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 Nani oyo alembi, bongo ngai nalemba nzoto te? Nani oyo akweyi na masumu, bongo ngai nayoka motema pasi te?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 Soki nasengeli komikumisa, nakomikumisa mpo na bolembu na ngai.
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31 Nzambe mpe Tata ya Nkolo Yesu, Ye oyo akumisama mpo na seko, ayebi ete nazali kokosa te. (aiōn g165)
The God and Father of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. (aiōn g165)
32 Kati na Damasi, moyangeli ya mokonzi Aretasi apesaki mitindo ete bakengela engumba ya bato ya Damasi mpo ete bakanga ngai.
In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33 Kasi bakitisaki ngai na nzela ya lidusu kati na mir, kati na kitunga, libanda ya mir; bongo nalongaki kokima ye.
I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
