1 Yokaana 4
1 Abaagalwa, temukkirizanga buli myoyo, naye musookenga okugyetegereza mulabe obanga givudde eri Katonda, kubanga kaakano waliwo bannabbi ab’obulimba bangi mu nsi.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Eno y’engeri gye tutegeeramu Mwoyo wa Katonda: buli ayatula nti Yesu Kristo yafuuka omubiri, ng’ava eri Katonda, oyo y’alina Mwoyo wa Katonda.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 Naye buli mwoyo ogutayatula Yesu nga teguvudde eri Katonda. Ogwo gwe mwoyo ogw’Omulabe wa Kristo, gwe mwawulira nti ajja mu nsi, era amaze okutuuka.
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Mmwe, abaana abaagalwa, muli ba Katonda era mumaze okuwangula, kubanga oyo ali mu mmwe wa maanyi okusinga oyo ali mu nsi.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 Bo ba nsi era boogera bya nsi, era abantu b’ensi kyebava babawuliriza.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 Naye ffe tuli bantu ba Katonda, era buli amanyi Katonda atuwuliriza; atali wa Katonda tatuwuliriza. Eyo y’engeri gye tusobola okwawulamu omwoyo ogw’amazima n’omwoyo ogw’obulimba.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Abaagalwa, twagalanenga, kubanga okwagala kuva eri Katonda, era buli alina okwagala mwana wa Katonda, era amanyi Katonda.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 Naye buli atalina kwagala tamanyi Katonda, kubanga Katonda kwagala.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 Katonda yatulaga okwagala kwe, bwe yatuma mu nsi Omwana we omu yekka bw’ati, tulyoke tube abalamu ku bw’oyo.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Mu kino mwe tutegeerera ddala okwagala kwennyini, kubanga teyakikola lwa kuba nti ffe twali twagala Katonda, naye ye yennyini ye yatwagala, n’awaayo Omwana we ng’omutango olw’ebibi byaffe.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
11 Kale abaagalwa, nga Katonda bwe yatwagala bw’atyo naffe tuteekwa okwagalananga.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 Tewali n’omu eyali alabye ku Katonda, naye bwe twagalana, Katonda abeera mu ffe, n’okwagala kwe ne kulabikira mu ffe.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Mu ekyo mwe tutegeerera nti Katonda ali mu ffe era naffe tuli mu Ye, olwa Mwoyo gw’atuwadde.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 Era ffe twamulaba n’amaaso gaffe, kyetuva tutegeeza nti Kitaffe yatuma Omwana we okuba Omulokozi w’ensi.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
15 Kale buli ayatula nti Yesu Mwana wa Katonda, nga Katonda ali mu ye era nga naye ali mu Katonda.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 Ffe tumanyi okwagala kwa Katonda era tukkiririza mu kwagala kwe okwo kw’alina gye tuli. Katonda kwagala, era buli abeera n’okwagala abeera mu Katonda, ne Katonda abeera mu ye.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Bwe twagala bannaffe nga Kristo bwe yakola ng’ali mu nsi muno, tetulibaako kye tweraliikirira ku lunaku olw’okusalirako omusango.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 Mu kwagala temuliimu kutya, kubanga okwagala okutuukiridde kumalawo okutya; kubanga okutya kulimu okubonerezebwa, na buli atya, aba tannatuukirira mu kwagala.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 Tulina okwagala kubanga Ye ye yasooka okutwagala.
We love him, because he first loved us.
20 Omuntu yenna bw’agamba nti, “Njagala Katonda,” naye n’akyawa muganda we, omuntu oyo mulimba. Kubanga buli atayagala muganda we gw’alabako, tasobola kwagala Katonda gw’atalabangako.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 Era Katonda yennyini yatulagira nti, “Buli ayagala Katonda ayagalenga ne muganda we.”
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
