Bafilipi 3
1 Mpo na kosukisa, bandeko na ngai, bosepelaka kati na Nkolo! Ezali likambo ya pasi te mpo na ngai kokomela bino lisusu makambo oyo nakomelaki bino liboso, mpe yango ezali mpo na bolamu na bino.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in our Lord. To write these things again and again to you, is not irksome to me, because they make you cautious.
2 Bosala keba na bambwa, na bato mabe mpe na bato oyo batindikaka bino na kokatisa ngenga!
Beware of dogs; beware of evil doers; beware of the clipped in flesh.
3 Biso nde tozali bato oyo bakatisa ngenga na solo, pamba te tosambelaka Nzambe na nzela ya Molimo na Ye, tomikumisaka kati na Yesu-Klisto mpe totiaka elikya na biso na nzoto te,
For we are the real circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Jesus the Messiah, and place no reliance on the flesh.
4 atako ngai mpe nakoki na ngai kotia elikya na nzoto. Soki moto moko akanisi ete akoki kotia elikya na nzoto, asengeli koyeba ete ngai nakoki kutu kotia elikya yango koleka ye;
And yet I might place reliance on the flesh. For, if any one thinketh that his reliance should be on the flesh, I might do so more than he.
5 pamba te bakatisaki ngai ngenga na mokolo ya mwambe, nazali penza moto ya Isalaele kati na libota ya Benjame, mpe nazali Mo-Ebre oyo abotama na baboti oyo bazali mpe Ba-Ebre. Mpo na oyo etali Mibeko, nazalaki Mofarizeo;
Circumcised when eight days old; of the stock of Israel; of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, descendant of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
6 mpo na oyo etali molende, nanyokolaki Lingomba; mpo na oyo etali bosembo oyo bato balukaka na nzela ya Mibeko, nazalaki moto azanga pamela.
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.
7 Kasi makambo oyo nazalaki komona ete ezali na tina mpo na ngai, nakomi sik’oyo komona yango pamba mpo na Klisto.
But these things, which had been my excellence, I have accounted a detriment, because of the Messiah.
8 Kaka yango te, nazali kutu komona makambo nyonso lokola eloko pamba likolo ya bolamu oyo eleki monene: koyeba Yesu-Klisto, Nkolo na ngai. Ezali mpo na Ye nde ngai nandimaki kobungisa makambo wana nyonso mpe nazali komona yango lokola bisanza, mpo ete nakoka kozwa Klisto
And now also I account them all a detriment, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus the Messiah my Lord; for the sake of whom, I have parted with all things, and have accounted them as dung, that I might gain the Messiah,
9 mpe bakuta ngai kati na Ye. Nakomi moto ya sembo mpo ete nandimeli Klisto: Nzambe akomisi ngai moto ya sembo na nzela ya kondima. Ezali lisusu te na nzela ya kotosa Mibeko ndenge nazalaki kokanisa kala.
and be found in him; since my righteousness is not now that from the law, but that which is from faith in the Messiah, that is, the righteousness which is from God;
10 Posa monene ya motema na ngai ezali: koyeba Klisto, koyeba nguya ya lisekwa na Ye, kosangana na pasi na Ye, kokokana na Ye kati na kufa na Ye
that thereby I might know Jesus, and the efficacy of his resurrection; and might participate in his sufferings, and be assimilated to his death:
11 na elikya ete ngai mpe nakosekwa kati na bakufi.
if so be, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Nalingi koloba te ete nasili kozwa biloko oyo nyonso to mpe nasili kokoma moto ya kokoka, kasi nazali nde kopota mbangu mpo na kozwa yango, pamba te Yesu-Klisto asila mpe kozwa ngai.
Not as though I had already taken the prize, or were already complete; but I run in the race, if so I may take that, for which Jesus the Messiah took me.
13 Bandeko, nazali kokanisa te ete nasili kozwa yango; kasi nasalaka likambo moko: nabosanaka makambo nyonso oyo esili koleka, mpe namipesaka mpo na makambo oyo ezali liboso.
My brethren, I do not consider myself, as having taken it. But one thing I know, that I forget the things behind me, and reach for the things before me;
14 Boye nazali kopota mbangu kino nakoma na suka mpo na kozwa mbano oyo Nzambe abenga ngai mpo na yango wuta na Likolo kati na Yesu-Klisto.
and I run straight for the goal, that I may obtain the prize of victory of the call of God from on high, by Jesus the Messiah.
15 Biso nyonso oyo tokola na Molimo, tosengeli kokanisa ndenge wana. Mpe soki ezali na likambo oyo na tina na yango bozali kokanisa ndenge mosusu, Nzambe akososolisa bino.
Therefore let those who are perfect, have these views; and if ye differently view any thing, God will reveal that also to you.
16 Nzokande, na esika oyo tosili kokoma, totambola nzela moko.
Nevertheless, that we may attain to this, let us proceed on in one path, and with one consent.
17 Bandeko, bino nyonso bolanda ndakisa na ngai mpe bomekola ezaleli ya bato oyo bazali kotambola lokola biso.
Be like me, my brethren; and contemplate them, who walk after the pattern ye have seen in us.
18 Pamba te ndenge nazalaki koyebisa bino yango mbala na mbala mpe, sik’oyo, nazali lisusu koyebisa bino yango na kolela, bato mingi bazali kotambola lokola banguna ya ekulusu ya Klisto.
For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and I now tell you, with weeping, that they are adversaries of the cross of the Messiah;
19 Suka na bango ezali libebi; pamba te nzambe na bango ezali libumu na bango, lokumu na bango ezali kati na makambo oyo eyokisaka bango soni, mpe makanisi na bango elukaka kaka biloko ya mokili.
whose end is destruction; whose god is their belly, and their glory their shame; whose thoughts are on things of the earth.
20 Kasi biso, mboka na biso ezali kati na Likolo, mpe tozali kozela na posa makasi Mobikisi na biso, Nkolo Yesu-Klisto, oyo akowuta na Likolo.
But our concern is with heaven; and from thence we expect our Vivifier, our Lord, Jesus the Messiah;
21 Ye nde akobongola nzoto na biso ya putulu mpo na kokomisa yango nzoto ya nkembo, na nzela ya nguya na Ye ya kotia biloko nyonso na se ya bokonzi na Ye.
who will change the body of our abasement, that it may have the likeness of the body of his glory, according to his great power, whereby all things are made subject to him.
