Galatiana 6
1 Ry rahalahy, raha misy olona azon’ ny ota tsy nahy aza, dia atsanganonareo izay manana ny Fanahy amin’ ny fahamorana izy, ka mihevera ny tenanao, fandrao ianao koa mba halaim-panahy ihany.
My fellow believers, if [you] discover that a person [among your congregation] is sinning, [those of] you whom [God’s] Spirit [is directing and empowering] should gently correct that person. [Furthermore, each of] you [who corrects another person should] be very cautious in order that you might not [sin like that when] you are tempted {[when something] tempts you}.
2 Mifampitondrà izay mahavesatra, ary aoka izany no hahatanterahanareo ny lalàn’ i Kristy.
[When there are ones who have] problems, you should help each other. By doing that, you will complete what Christ requires.
3 Fa raha misy manao ny tenany ho zavatra, kanjo tsinontsinona, dia mamitaka ny tenany izy.
Keep in mind that those who [refuse to help others because they think that they are more important than other people, although they are] not really more important, are deceiving themselves.
4 Fa aoka ny olona rehetra samy hizaha toetra ny asany avy, dia samy hanana hafaliana ny amin’ ny tenany ihany izy, fa tsy ny amin’ ny olon-kafa;
Instead, each [of you] should [constantly] test/judge [and decide if you can approve what you yourself are doing and thinking]. Then you can boast because of what you yourself [are doing and thinking], and not because what you are doing is superior to what other persons [are doing].
5 fa samy hitondra ny entany avy ny olona rehetra.
Keep in mind that you must each perform your own [individual] tasks.
6 Aoka izay ampianarina ny teny mba hahafoy zava-tsoa ho an’ izay mampianatra.
[You] who are being taught {whom others are teaching} [God’s truth] should share your various [material] things [EUP] with your teachers.
7 Aza mety hofitahina ianareo; Andriamanitra tsy azo vazivazina, fa izay afafin’ ny olona no hojinjany.
You should not deceive yourselves. [Remember that] God is never outwitted {no one ever fools God}. [Just like] a farmer will reap exactly the kind [of crop that] he plants [MET], [God will reward people according to what they have done] [MET].
8 Fa izay mamafy ho an’ ny nofony dia hijinja fahasimbana avy amin’ ny nofo; ary izay mamafy ho an’ ny Fanahy dia hijinja fiainana mandrakizay avy amin’ ny Fanahy. (aiōnios g166)
[God] will punish eternally those who do what their self-directed natures urge them to do. But those who please [God’s] Spirit will live forever [with God] because of what [God’s] Spirit does for them. (aiōnios g166)
9 Ary aza mba ketraka amin’ ny fanaovan-tsoa isika; fa amin’ ny fotoan’ andro no hijinjantsika, raha tsy reraka isika.
But we should not (tire of/become discouraged while) doing what pleases God, because [eventually], at the time [that God] has determined, we will receive a reward [MET], if we do not stop [doing the good things that we have been doing].
10 Koa araka ny ananantsika andro hanaovana, dia aoka isika hanao soa amin’ ny olona rehetra, indrindra fa amin’ ny mpianakavin’ ny finoana.
So, whenever we have opportunities, we should do [what is] good to all people. But especially we should do what is good to all our fellow believers.
11 Indro ny havaventin’ ny soratra izay soratan’ ny tanako ho aminareo.
I am now writing this last part of this letter to you in my own handwriting. Notice the large letters with which I am now writing. I am doing this in order that I might emphasize this:
12 Na iza na iza te-hiseho ho tsara amin’ ny nofo, dia ireo no manery anareo hoforana, nefa noho izao ihany: fandrao henjehina noho ny hazo fijalian’ i Kristy izy.
Some Jewish believers are trying to force you to perform certain rituals so that other Jews will think highly of them. They are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone must circumcise you}. They are doing that only in order that other Jews would no longer (persecute them/cause them to suffer) for proclaiming that God will save us because of our trusting in what Christ accomplished when he died on the cross [MTY, MET].
13 Fa na dia ny tenan’ izy voafora aza dia tsy mitandrina ny lalàna; kanefa tiany ho forana koa ianareo, mba hireharehany amin’ ny nofonareo.
The reason that I say that is that the ones who are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone circumcise you} do not themselves fully obey the laws that God gave to Moses. Instead, they desire that you let someone circumcise you in order that they might boast to those Jews who would (persecute them/cause them to suffer) that you did that because they insisted [MTY] that you do it.
14 Fa sanatria raha mba misy hataoko rehareha afa-tsy ny hazo fijalian’ i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika, Izay nahavoahombo izao tontolo izao tamin’ ny hazo fijaliana, raha ny amiko, ary izaho kosa, raha ny amin’ izao tontolo izao.
I myself, however, strongly desire that I never boast about anything like that. The only thing I will boast about is what our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished by dying on the cross [MTY]. Because of what Christ did on the cross, I no longer am interested in the things that those who do not trust Christ [MTY] think are important, and those people are no longer interested in the things that I [MET] think are important.
15 Fa samy tsy mahasoa na ny famorana na ny tsi-famorana, fa ny ho olom-baovao.
I will boast about Christ dying on the cross because God is concerned neither that people are circumcised nor that people are not circumcised. Instead, he is concerned only that people conduct their lives in a completely new way.
16 Ary izay rehetra mandeha araka ity fitsipika ity, dia ho aminy anie ny fiadanana sy ny famindram-po, ary ho amin’ ny Isiraelin’ Andriamanitra.
I pray that God will give inner peace and act kindly towards all who will act according to this new way of life. It is all those who live according to this new way of life who are now truly God’s people [MET], as the Israeli people were God’s people previously.
17 Amin’ izao sisa izao aoka tsy hisy hanahirana ahy intsony; fa izaho mitondra ny marik’ i Jesosy voatomboka eo amin’ ny tenako.
Finally, I say that people have persecuted me/caused me to suffer for declaring the truth about Jesus, and as a result I have scars on my body. Your new teachers do not have scars like mine! So do not trouble/bother me about these matters again!
18 Ho amin’ ny fanahinareo anie, ry rahalahy, ny fahasoavan’ i Jesosy Kristy Tompontsika. Amena.
My fellow believers, I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will kindly accomplish what he desires within you. (Amen!/May it be so!)
