2 Batesalonika 2
1 Bandeko, mpo na oyo etali boyei ya Yesu-Klisto, Nkolo na biso, mpe bosangani na biso epai na Ye, tozali kosenga na bino boye:
Now [I want to write to you] about the time when our Lord Jesus Christ will return and when [God] will gather us together to [where Jesus] is. My fellow believers, I urge you
2 bopesaka na mobulu nzela te ya kokota na pete kati na makanisi na bino to tika ete mitema na bino etungisamaka te likolo na emoniseli, liloba to mokanda oyo bato bakoki koloba na tina na yango ete ewuti epai na biso mpe ezali koloba ete mokolo ya Nkolo esili kokoma.
that you think calmly [about any message] that [claims/says] that the Lord has [already] come again. Do not be shaken or alarmed/worried by any such message. [It does not matter] if [it is a message that someone claims God’s Spirit] revealed to him, or if [it is some other message that someone] has spoken, or whether [it is a message that someone claims] that I wrote in a letter.
3 Tika ete moko te akosa bino; pamba te liboso ete mokolo yango ekoma, bato basengeli nanu kobwaka kondima, mpe motomboki oyo abongisami mpo na libebi asengeli nanu komonana.
Do not allow anyone to deceive you in any way [with the result that you believe any such message]. 2 Thessalonians 2:3b-5 [The Lord] will not come [MTY] [immediately]. First, [many people] [PRS] will rebel [against God]. The result of their rebelling will be that [they will accept and obey] the man who will sin very greatly [against God].
4 Motomboki yango akotelemela makambo nyonso ya Nzambe mpe akomitombola na likolo ya nyonso oyo bato babengaka Nzambe to na likolo ya oyo bato bagumbamelaka, kino kokende kovanda kati na Tempelo ya Nzambe mpe komibenga Nzambe.
He will be the [supreme] enemy [of God]. He will [proudly] exalt himself above everything that [people] consider to be some god and above everything that people worship. [As a result of wanting people to worship him], he will [even enter] God’s Temple and sit down [there to rule]. He will publicly proclaim that he himself is God! But [God] will [certainly] punish that man forever!
5 Boni, bobosani ete nazalaki koyebisa bino makambo yango tango nazalaki elongo na bino?
(I am sure that you remember that I kept telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]./Do you not remember that I continued telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]?) [RHQ]
6 Nzokande boyebi sik’oyo nini ezali kokanga ye nzela mpo ete amonisama te na tango na ye.
You also know that there is something (OR, someone) that is preventing this man [from being revealed] {[from revealing himself]}. This man is being (held back/restrained) [now] for him to be revealed {that he reveal himself} at the time that [God has planned] [MTY].
7 Pamba te nguya ya botomboki, oyo ebombama esili kobanda kosala; kasi esengeli ete Ye oyo, kino sik’oyo, azali kokanga ye nzela ya komimonisa alongwa
[Although Satan] is already secretly causing [people] to reject [God’s] laws, (the one/God) who is preventing [this man from revealing himself] now [will continue to prevent him from doing that] until he/[God] removes him.
8 mpo ete motomboki amonisama, ye oyo Nkolo Yesu akoboma na nzela ya Liloba kowuta na monoko na Ye mpe akobebisa tango akoya na nzela ya nkembo ya boyei na Ye.
It is then that [God will allow] this man, who rejects [God’s] laws [completely], to be revealed {to reveal himself}. Then the Lord Jesus will destroy him, by simply commanding it [MTY]. Jesus, by his own glorious arrival, will cause him to become [completely] powerless.
9 Motomboki yango akoya na nguya ya Satana mpe akosala bikamwa ya lolenge nyonso, bilembo, misala minene ya lokuta
But [before Jesus destroys him], Satan will make him very powerful. As a result, he [will do all kinds of supernatural] miracles and amazing things [DOU] that will seem as though [God has enabled him to do them].
10 mpe lolenge nyonso ya mabe, mpo na kokosa bato oyo bazali kokende na libebi, pamba te bayambaki te bolingo ya bosolo oyo esengeli kobikisa bango.
And by doing wicked [things], he will completely deceive those who will [certainly] (perish/go to hell). [He will deceive them] because they will have refused to love the true [message]. So they will not be saved {God will not save them}. (questioned)
11 Yango wana Nzambe atindeli bango molimo ya libunga mpo ete bandima makambo ya lokuta,
So, God, by his power, will enable this man to easily deceive people, so that they will believe what [this man] falsely [claims/says that he is].
12 mpe mpo ete bato nyonso oyo baboyaki kondimela solo kasi basepelaki na mabe bazwa etumbu.
The result will be that everyone will be [rightly] condemned {that [God] will [justly] condemn everyone} [to be punished] who did not believe the true [message], but who instead gladly chose [to be doing] what is wicked.
13 Kasi biso bandeko balingami ya Nkolo, tosengeli tango nyonso kozongisaka matondi epai ya Nzambe mpo na bino oyo Nkolo alingaka, pamba te Nzambe asila kopona bino wuta na ebandeli mpo ete bozwa lobiko, na nzela ya libulisi ya Molimo mpe ya kondima kati na solo.
[Our] fellow believers, whom our Lord [Jesus] loves, we thank God very frequently for you. It is appropriate/right for us to do that, because God chose you (from the beginning [MTY] [of creation/before the world existed]) in order that he might save [you] as a result of [your] believing the true [message] and as a result of [God’s] Spirit setting you apart [for God].
14 Na nzela ya Sango Malamu oyo toteyaki bino, Nzambe abengaki bino mpo ete bozwa lobiko mpe nkembo ya Nkolo na biso, Yesu-Klisto.
[We thank God that] he chose you as a result of our [proclaiming] the message about Christ [to you], in order that you might (share in/have) some of the glory that our Lord Jesus Christ has.
15 Yango wana bandeko, botelema ngwi mpe bobatela malamu malakisi oyo toteyaki bino, ezala na nzela ya maloba to na nzela ya mokanda.
So, [our fellow believers, continue to be firm concerning what you believe]; that is, continue believing the [true] teaching that we gave to you by our speaking to you and by our [writing] a letter [to you].
16 Tika ete Ye moko Yesu-Klisto, Nkolo na biso, mpe Nzambe, Tata na biso, oyo alingaki biso mpe apesaki biso, na ngolu na Ye, malendisi ya seko mpe elikya ya malamu, (aiōnios g166)
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, our Father, loves us and encourages us and causes us to confidently expect [to receive] the eternal things that [he has promised to give to us] as a result of [Christ] acting kindly toward us in a way we did not deserve. (aiōnios g166)
17 balendisa mitema na bino mpe bapesa bino makasi ya kosala bolamu kati na misala mpe maloba nyonso!
[We strongly pray that] God and Jesus together will encourage you! And we pray that they will cause you to continue doing and saying things that God considers to be good.
