1 KwabaseKhorinte 6
1 Kukhona yini umuntu wakini, othi elecala lomunye, abe lesibindi sokuyakwahlulelwa phambi kwabangalunganga, kungabi phambi kwabangcwele?
If any of you has a dispute against another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous, instead of the kadoshim?
2 Kalazi yini ukuthi abangcwele bazakwahlulela umhlaba? Uba-ke umhlaba uzakwahlulelwa yini, kalifanele yini ukwahlulela amacala amancinyane?
Do you not know that the kadoshim 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 you not 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 have no standing in the congregation?
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 person among you who would be able to decide between a brother and his brother?
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?
Actually, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
8 Kodwa lina liyona liqilibezele, lalokhu kubazalwane.
No, but you yourselves do wrong, and cheat, 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 you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men,
10 loba amasela, loba izihwaba, loba izidakwa, loba izithuki, loba abaphangi, abazakulidla ilifa lombuso kaNkulunkulu.
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
11 Abanye benu babeyilezizinto; kodwa ligezisiwe, kodwa langcweliswa, kodwa lalungisiswa ebizweni leNkosi uJesu, langoMoya kaNkulunkulu wethu.
Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and in the Ruach 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 you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah, and make them members of a prostitute? Absolutely not.
16 Kumbe kalazi yini ukuthi onamathelana lesifebe ungumzimba munye laso? Ngoba labo ababili, uthi, bazakuba nyamanye.
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For he says, "The two 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 person 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 you not know that your body is a temple of the Ruach ha-Kodesh which is in you, which 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.
