Abaggalatiya 2
1 Bwe waayitawo emyaka kkumi n’ena ne nzirayo ne Balunabba ne Tito e Yerusaalemi.
Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
2 Nagendayo olw’okubikulirwa kwe nafuna, ne mbanjulira Enjiri gye mbuulira Abaamawanga. Nayogera n’abakulembeze b’Ekkanisa mu kyama balyoke bategeere bye njigiriza, si kulwa nga nteganira bwereere, ne bakkiriza nti bituufu.
I went up by revelation, and I explained to them the Good News which I preach among those who are not Jewish, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
3 Tito gwe nnali naye ne batamuwaliriza kukomolebwa, newaakubadde nga yali munnaggwanga.
But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
4 Naye olw’abooluganda ab’obulimba abaayingizibwa mu kyama okuketta eddembe lye tulina mu Kristo Yesu, balyoke batufuule abaddu,
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Messiah Yeshua, that they might bring us into bondage;
5 abo tetwabawuliriza essaawa n’emu, amazima g’enjiri galyoke geeyongerenga mu mmwe.
to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.
6 Naye abo abaabalibwa ng’okuba ekintu eky’omuwendo, abataaliko bwe baali gye ndi kubanga Katonda tasosola mu bantu, nze gye ndi tebalina kye bannyongerako,
But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
7 naye mu ngeri endala bwe baalaba nga nateresebwa Enjiri ey’abatali bakomole, nga Peetero bwe yateresebwa ey’abakomole,
but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
8 oyo eyakolera mu Peetero olw’obutume bw’abakomole, ye yakolera ne mu nze ku lw’Abaamawanga.
(for he who appointed Peter to be an emissary of the circumcision appointed me also to the non-Jews);
9 Yakobo ne Keefa ne Yokaana abaalabikanga ng’empagi bwe baalaba ekisa ekya mpeebwa, ne batukwata mu ngalo eza ddyo nze ne Balunabba nga bassa kimu naffe nti ffe tubeere mu Bamawanga, naye bo babeere mu b’abakomole.
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, Jacob and Kefa and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the non-Jews, and they to the circumcised.
10 Kye baatusaba kyokka tujjukirenga abaavu, ate ng’ekyo kye nnali nesunga okukola.
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
11 Naye Peetero ate era nga ye Keefa, bwe yajja mu Antiyokiya ne mmunenya mu lwatu kubanga yali mukyamu.
But when Kefa came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 Kubanga abaava eri Yakobo bwe baali tebannajja, yalyanga n’Abamawanga, naye bwe bajja n’atandika okubeeyawulako ng’atya abakomole.
For before some people came from Jacob, he ate with those who were not Jewish. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
13 Abayudaaya abalala bonna ne bamwegattako mu bukuusa, ekyo ne kireetera ne Balunabba okusendebwasendebwa obukuusa bwabwe.
And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 Naye bwe nalaba nga tebatambula bulungi ng’amazima g’enjiri bwe gali, ne ŋŋamba Keefa mu maaso gaabwe bonna nti, “Obanga ggwe Omuyudaaya ogoberera empisa z’Abamawanga ezitali za Kiyudaaya, owaliriza otya Abaamawanga okugobereranga empisa z’Ekiyudaaya?”
But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Kefa before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the non-Jews do, and not as the Jews do, how can you compel the non-Jews to live as the Jews do?
15 Ffe mu buzaaliranwa tuli Bayudaaya so si Bamawanga aboonoonyi.
"We, being Jews by birth, and not non-Jewish sinners,
16 Kyokka tukimanyi bulungi nti omuntu taweebwa butuukirivu lwa kugondera mateeka, wabula abufuna lwa kukkiriza Yesu Kristo, era naffe kyetwava tukkiriza Yesu Kristo tulyoke tuweebwe obutuukirivu olw’okumukkiriza so si lwa kugondera mateeka. Kubanga tewali n’omu aliweebwa obutuukirivu olw’ebikolwa eby’amateeka.
yet knowing that no one is justified by the works of the law but through faith in Yeshua the Messiah, even we believed in Messiah Yeshua, that we might be justified by faith in Messiah, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
17 Naye oba nga bwe twanoonya okuweebwa obutuukirivu mu Kristo twasangibwa okuba aboonoonyi, kitegeeza nti Kristo muweereza wa kibi? Kikafuuwe.
But if, while we sought to be justified in Messiah, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Messiah a servant of sin? Certainly not.
18 Kubanga bwe nzimba nate bye nazikiriza, nneeraga nzekka okuba omwonoonyi.
For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
19 Kubanga olw’amateeka nnafa eri mateeka, ndyoke mbeere omulamu mu Katonda. Nakomererwa wamu ne Kristo;
For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
20 kyokka ndi mulamu, si ku bwange, wabula ku bwa Kristo abeera mu nze; era obulamu bwe nnina kaakano mu mubiri, mbulina lwa kukkiriza Omwana wa Katonda, eyanjagala ne yeewaayo yekka ku lwange.
I have been crucified with Messiah, and it is no longer I that live, but Messiah living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
21 Ssidibya kisa kya Katonda; naye oba nga obutuukirivu buva mu mateeka, nga Kristo yafiira bwereere.
I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Messiah died for nothing."
