Abaruumi 3
1 Kaakano olwo Omuyudaaya alina nkizo ki? Oba okukomolebwa kugasa ki?
What, then, is the preeminence of the Jew? Or what, the profit of his circumcision?
2 Kugasa nnyo mu ngeri nnyingi. Okusookera ddala, Abayudaaya be baateresebwa ebigambo bya Katonda.
Much, every way: —First, indeed, that they were entrusted 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 distrusted, shall their distrust make, the trust of God, void?
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.”
Far be it! But let, God, prove to be, true, albeit, every man, be false! Even as it is written—That thou mightest be declared righteous in thy words, and overcome when thou art in 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, God’s righteousness, what shall we say? Surely, not unrighteous, is God who visiteth with his anger? After the manner of men, I am speaking, —
6 Nedda, sikikyamu. Katonda alisalira atya ensi omusango?
Far be it! Else 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, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?
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, according as we are injuriously charged, [and] according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence 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? do we screen ourselves? Not at all! For we have before accused both Jews and Greeks of being, all under sin;
10 Ng’ebyawandiikibwa bwe bigamba nti: “Tewali mutuukirivu n’omu.
Even as it is written—there is none righteous, not even one,
11 Tewali ategeera wadde anoonya Katonda.
There is none that discerneth, There is none that seeketh out God:
12 Bonna baakyama, bonna awamu baafuuka kitagasa; tewali n’omu akola obulungi, tewali n’omu.”
All, have turned aside, together, have become useless, There is none that doeth kindness, not so much as one:
13 “Emimiro gyabwe giringa entaana ezaasaamiridde, n’emimwa gyabwe gijjudde obulimba.” “Buli kigambo ekibavaamu kiri ng’obusagwa bw’omusota.”
A sepulchre opened, is their throat, with their tongues, have they used deceit, the poison of asps, is under their lips,
14 “Emimwa gyabwe gijjudde okukolima n’obukyayi.”
Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,
15 “Ebigere byabwe byanguwa okuyiwa omusaayi,
Swift, are their feet 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, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
20 Kubanga tewali n’omu aliweebwa obutuukirivu mu maaso ga Katonda olw’ebikolwa by’amateeka. Mu mateeka mwe tutegeerera ddala ekibi.
Inasmuch as, by works of law, shall no flesh be declared righteous before him, —through law, in fact, is discovery of sin.
21 Kale kaakano tutegeere ng’obutuukirivu bwa Katonda tebutuweebwa lwa kugondera Mateeka. Ekyo kikakasibwa Amateeka ne bannabbi.
But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God hath been manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets, —
22 Obutuukirivu bwa Katonda butuweebwa olw’okukkiriza Yesu Kristo. Katonda tasosola.
A righteousness of God, through faith in [Jesus] Christ, unto all that have faith; 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 declared righteous freely by his favour 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 hath set forth as a propitiatory covering, through faith in his blood, for a showing forth of his righteousness, by reason of the passing-by of the previously committed sins,
26 Kino kiraga Katonda bw’alaga okwaniriza kw’alina eri abantu mu biro bino, bwe baba n’okukkiriza mu Yesu.
In the forbearance of God, —with a view to a showing forth of his righteousness in the present season, that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous him that hath faith in Jesus.
27 Kale lwaki twenyumiriza? Tewali nsonga etwenyumirizisa. Lwa kuba nga twagoberera amateeka? Nedda, lwa kukkiriza.
Where, then, the boasting! It is excluded. Through what kind of law? Of works? Nay! but through a law of faith:
28 Noolwekyo omuntu aweebwa obutuukirivu lwa kukkiriza so si lwa kugoberera mateeka.
For we reckon that a man is to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of 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, and not of the nations also? Yea! of the nations also: —
30 Kubanga ye Katonda omu awa obutuukirivu abaakomolebwa, n’abo abataakomolebwa olw’okukkiriza kwabwe.
If, at all events, God is one, who will declare righteous—the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through their faith.
31 Kale amateeka tugaggyewo olw’okukkiriza? Kikafuuwe. Tunyweza manyweze.
Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!
