1 Athesalonike 4
1 Hatimaye, alongo, twabatia mwoyo na kubasihi kwa Yesu Kristo. Kati mwatipokya maelezo boka kwitu namna ipalikwa kuyenda na kumpendeza Nnongo, kwa ndela iyo kae muenende na kupanga zaidi.
Wherefore, my brethren, I entreat you, and beseech you by our Lord Jesus, that, as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would make progress more and more.
2 Kwa mana mutangite ni maelekezo gani tubapeile pitya Ngwana Yesu.
For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3 Kwa mana aga nga mapenzi ga Nnongo: utakaso winu-panga muukwepe umalaya,
For this is the pleasure of God, your sanctification; and that ye be separated from all whoredom;
4 Panga kila yumo winu atangite namna ya kumiliki nyumbo bake mwene katika utakatifu na heshima.
and that each one of you might know how to possess his vessel, in sanctity and in honor;
5 Kana ube na nyumbo kwa ajili ya tamaa ya yega(kati mataifa bamtangite kwaa Nnongo).
and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:
6 Abile kwaa mundu yeyote ywapala yoka mipaka na kunkosea nongowe kwa ajili ya likowe lee. Kwa mana Ngwana nga mwene lepa kisasi kwa makowe gote aga, kati tubile tangulia kuwaonya na shuhudia.
and that ye dare not to transgress and to overreach any one his brother, in this matter; because our Lord is the avenger of all these, as also we have said and testified to you in time past.
7 Kwa mana Ngwana atukema kwaa kwa uchafu, ila kwa utakatifu.
For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.
8 Kwa eyo ywalikana lee abakanikiya kwaa bandu. ila amkanikiya Nnongo, ywaabapeile Roho mtakatifu wake.
He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.
9 Kuhusu upendo wa alongo, ntopo haja ya mundu yeyote kukuandikia, kwa mana mwatipundishwa na Nnongo pendana mwenga kwa mwenga.
Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 Hakika, mupangite aga gote kwa alongo babile Makedonia yote, lakini twabasihi, alongo, mpange hata na zaidi.
Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:
11 Twaasihi mutamaniye tama maisha ga utulivu, kujali kazi yinu, na kupanga kazi kwa maboko ginu, kati yatuwaamuru.
and that ye strive to be quiet, and to attend to your own affairs; and that ye labor with your own hands; as we directed you;
12 Panga aga ili uweze kuyenda vizuri na kwa heshima kwa habo babile panja ya imani, ili upungukiwe na lihitaji lyolyote.
and that ye walk becomingly towards those without; and that ye be dependent on no man.
13 Tupla kwaa mwenga mugayowe yaibile kwaaa sahihi, mwenga mwalongo, nnani ya habo bagonjike, ili kana muhuzunike kati benge babile kwaa na uhakika kuhusu wakati waisa.
And, I wish you to know, my brethren, that ye should not mourn over them who have fallen asleep, like other people who have no hope.
14 Mana twaaminiya kuwa Yesu awile na kuyoka kae, nyonyonyo Nnongo alowa baleta pamope na Yesu habo bangonjike kiwo katika ywembe.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them who sleep, will God, by Jesus, bring with him.
15 Kwa ajili ya ago twaamakiya mwenga kwa nebo lya Ngwana, panga twenga tubile akoto, twalowa tama muda wa kuisa kwake Ngwana, hakika twayongolya kwa balo bagonjike kiwo.
And this we say to you, by the word of our Lord, that we who may survive and be alive, at the coming of our Lord, shall not precede them who have slept.
16 Kwa mana Ngwana mwene alowa uluka boka kumaunde. Aisa na lilobe likolo, pamope ni lilobe lya malaika nkolo, pamope na parapanda ya Nnongo, na bembe bawile katika Kristo walowa yoka kwanza.
Because our Lord will himself descend from heaven, with the mandate, and with the voice of the chief angel, and with the trump of God; and the dead who are in the Messiah, will first arise;
17 Boka po twanga twatubile akoto, twatubile, twaloyanganika katika maunde pamope nabo kumlaki Ngwana hewani. Kwa ndela yee tubile na Ngwana masoba gote.
and then, we who survive and are alive shall be caught up together with them to the clouds, to meet our Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with our Lord.
18 Kwa eyo, mufarijiane mwenga kwa mwenga kwa maneno aga.
Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
