Abaruumi 3
1 Kaakano olwo Omuyudaaya alina nkizo ki? Oba okukomolebwa kugasa ki?
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?
2 Kugasa nnyo mu ngeri nnyingi. Okusookera ddala, Abayudaaya be baateresebwa ebigambo bya Katonda.
Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
3 Kituufu nti abamu ku bo tebakkiriza bigambo ebyo. Obutakkiriza bwabwe buliggyawo obwesigwa bwa Katonda, olw’okuba nga bo tebaalina kukkiriza?
For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?
4 Tekisoboka. Katonda ye wa mazima, newaakubadde nga buli muntu yenna mulimba. Ebyawandiikibwa bigamba nti, “Olyoke otuukirire mu bigambo byo, era osinge bw’osala omusango.”
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
5 Naye obanga obutali butuukirivu bwaffe bulagira ddala obutuukirivu bwa Katonda, tunaayogera ki? Kikyamu Katonda okutunyiigira era n’atubonereza? Mu kino njogera ng’omuntu.
But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
6 Nedda, sikikyamu. Katonda alisalira atya ensi omusango?
God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 Naye obanga obulimba bwammwe bweyongera okugulumiza Katonda, nga kiraga Katonda bw’ali ow’amazima, oyinza okwebuuza lwaki okyasalirwa omusango ng’omwonoonyi?
But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
8 Era okyayinza okwongerako na kino nti tukolenga ebibi mulyoke muveemu ebirungi, ng’abamu bwe batuwaayiriza nti, bwe tugamba. Kyokka Katonda mwenkanya, era alibasalira nga bwe kibagwanira.
and why not (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
9 Bino byonna bitegeeza ki? Kitegeeza nti ffe Abayudaaya tuli bulungi nnyo okusinga abantu abalala bonna? Nedda, n’akatono. Ffenna tufugibwa kibi, ne bwe baba Abayudaaya oba Abaamawanga.
What then? are we in worse case than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;
10 Ng’ebyawandiikibwa bwe bigamba nti: “Tewali mutuukirivu n’omu.
as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 Tewali ategeera wadde anoonya Katonda.
There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
12 Bonna baakyama, bonna awamu baafuuka kitagasa; tewali n’omu akola obulungi, tewali n’omu.”
They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not so much as one:
13 “Emimiro gyabwe giringa entaana ezaasaamiridde, n’emimwa gyabwe gijjudde obulimba.” “Buli kigambo ekibavaamu kiri ng’obusagwa bw’omusota.”
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
14 “Emimwa gyabwe gijjudde okukolima n’obukyayi.”
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 “Ebigere byabwe byanguwa okuyiwa omusaayi,
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 buli gye balaga baleka abantu baayo mu kuzikirira na mu nnaku njereere.
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 Tebamanyi kkubo lya mirembe.”
And the way of peace have they not known:
18 “N’okutya tebatya Katonda.”
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Tumanyi nga buli kyawandiikibwa mu mateeka, kyawandiikibwa ku lw’abo abafugibwa amateeka. Amateeka malambulukufu ku nsonga ezo, omuntu yenna aleme okwekwasa ensonga yonna, ate era ne Katonda okwongera okulaga ng’ensi yonna bwe yasobya.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
20 Kubanga tewali n’omu aliweebwa obutuukirivu mu maaso ga Katonda olw’ebikolwa by’amateeka. Mu mateeka mwe tutegeerera ddala ekibi.
because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
21 Kale kaakano tutegeere ng’obutuukirivu bwa Katonda tebutuweebwa lwa kugondera Mateeka. Ekyo kikakasibwa Amateeka ne bannabbi.
But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Obutuukirivu bwa Katonda butuweebwa olw’okukkiriza Yesu Kristo. Katonda tasosola.
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
23 Ffenna twayonoona era tetusaanira kitiibwa kya Katonda.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
24 Kyokka twaweebwa obutuukirivu bwa buwa olw’ekisa kye ekiri mu kununulibwa okuli mu Yesu Kristo;
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Katonda yaweereza Kristo okuba omutango, bwe tukkiriza Kristo olw’omusaayi gwe yayiwa. Alaga obutuukirivu bwe mu kugumiikiriza ebibi ebyakolebwa edda, be bantu abaayonoona mu biseera biri eby’edda.
whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, by his blood, to shew his righteousness, because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
26 Kino kiraga Katonda bw’alaga okwaniriza kw’alina eri abantu mu biro bino, bwe baba n’okukkiriza mu Yesu.
for the shewing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
27 Kale lwaki twenyumiriza? Tewali nsonga etwenyumirizisa. Lwa kuba nga twagoberera amateeka? Nedda, lwa kukkiriza.
Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.
28 Noolwekyo omuntu aweebwa obutuukirivu lwa kukkiriza so si lwa kugoberera mateeka.
We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 Oba Katonda wa Bayudaaya bokka? Si ye Katonda w’amawanga amalala gonna? Weewaawo nabo Katonda waabwe.
Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God] of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:
30 Kubanga ye Katonda omu awa obutuukirivu abaakomolebwa, n’abo abataakomolebwa olw’okukkiriza kwabwe.
if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.
31 Kale amateeka tugaggyewo olw’okukkiriza? Kikafuuwe. Tunyweza manyweze.
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
