1 KwabaseKhorinte 6
1 Kukhona yini umuntu wakini, othi elecala lomunye, abe lesibindi sokuyakwahlulelwa phambi kwabangalunganga, kungabi phambi kwabangcwele?
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
2 Kalazi yini ukuthi abangcwele bazakwahlulela umhlaba? Uba-ke umhlaba uzakwahlulelwa yini, kalifanele yini ukwahlulela amacala amancinyane?
Do not you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Kalazi yini ukuthi sizazahlulela ingilosi? Kangakanani indaba zalokhukuphila?
Do not you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?
4 Ngakho uba lilamacala alokhukuphila, babekeni phezu kwawo labo abadelelekayo ebandleni.
If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
5 Ngikhuluma kini ukuthi libe lenhloni. Ngokunjalo kakho ohlakaniphileyo phakathi kwenu yini, ngitsho loyedwa, ongahlulela phakathi kwabazalwane bakhe?
I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
6 Kodwa umzalwane umangalela umzalwane, lalokho phambi kwabangakholwayo.
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
7 Ngakho kusekhona isibili ukwehluleka phakathi kwenu, ukuthi lilokumangalelana. Kungani kulalokhu lingavumi ukoniwa? Kungani kulalokhu lingavumi ukuqilibezelwa?
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 Kodwa lina liyona liqilibezele, lalokhu kubazalwane.
No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
9 Kumbe alazi yini ukuthi abangalunganga kabayikulidla ilifa lombuso kaNkulunkulu? Lingakhohliswa; kakulaziphingi, loba abakhonza izithombe, loba izifebe, loba ababuthakathaka ekulalaneni kwabesilisa, loba abesilisa abalalanayo,
Or do not you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
10 loba amasela, loba izihwaba, loba izidakwa, loba izithuki, loba abaphangi, abazakulidla ilifa lombuso kaNkulunkulu.
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
11 Abanye benu babeyilezizinto; kodwa ligezisiwe, kodwa langcweliswa, kodwa lalungisiswa ebizweni leNkosi uJesu, langoMoya kaNkulunkulu wethu.
Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 Zonke izinto zivumelekile kimi, kodwa kayisizo zonke izinto ezisizayo; zonke izinto zivumelekile kimi, kodwa mina kangiyikubuswa lutho.
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
13 Ukudla ngokwesisu, lesisu ngesokudla; kanti uNkulunkulu uzakuchitha kokubili, sona lakho. Kodwa umzimba kayisiwo wokuphinga, kodwa ungoweNkosi, njalo iNkosi ingeyomzimba;
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 njalo uNkulunkulu owavusa iNkosi uzasivusa lathi ngamandla akhe.
Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
15 Kalazi yini ukuthi imizimba yenu iyizitho zikaKristu? Pho ngizathatha izitho zikaKristu ngizenze izitho zesifebe yini? Phinde!
Do not you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
16 Kumbe kalazi yini ukuthi onamathelana lesifebe ungumzimba munye laso? Ngoba labo ababili, uthi, bazakuba nyamanye.
Or do not you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
17 Kodwa onamathelene leNkosi ungumoya munye layo.
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Balekelani ukuphinga. Sonke isono umuntu asenzayo singaphandle komzimba; kodwa ophingayo wona owakhe umzimba.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Kumbe kalazi yini ukuthi umzimba wenu ulithempeli likaMoya oNgcwele okini, elilawo uvela kuNkulunkulu, njalo kalisibo abenu?
Or do not you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 Ngoba lathengwa ngentengo; ngakho dumisani uNkulunkulu emzimbeni wenu, langomoya wenu, okungokukaNkulunkulu.
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
