Baefeso 2
1 Kati yelo mwabile mwawile mu'makosa na sambi yinu.
He[F] raised you up as well, when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 Yabile mu'aga kwanza mwatiyenda lingana na nyakati ya ulimwengu huu. Mwabile mwatiboka kwa kunkengama ntawala wa mamlaka ya kumaunde. Ayee nga roho yake yolo apangaye kazi mu, bana ba kuasi. (aiōn g165)
in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience; (aiōn g165)
3 Twenga wote twabile nkati ya balo baaminiya kwaa hapo mwanzo. Twabile tupangite kwa namna ya tamaa inoite kwaa ya yega yitu. Twabile twapanga mapenzi ga yega yitu ni ufahamu witu. Twabile kwa asili ya bana ba dhahabu kati benge.
among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.
4 Lakini Nnongo ywabile ni rehema yanyansima kwa sababu ya lipendo lyake likolo lyaatupendile twenga.
But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 Muda twabile mu'kiwo mu'makosa yitu, atuletya pamope mu'maisha gaayambe nkati ya Kristo. Ni kwa neema kuwa nati lopolelwa.
even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
6 Nnongo kayogolya mpamo ni kutupanga tama pamope mu'pandu pa'kumaunde nkati ya Kristo Yesu.
and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 Apangite nyoo ili muda waisa aweze kutubonekea utajiri nkolo wa neema yake. Utubonekeya twenga alee kwa ndela ya wema wake nkati ya Kristo Yesu. (aiōn g165)
in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (aiōn g165)
8 Kwa neema mupangilwe akochopoli kwa ndela ya imani. Na yee iboka kwaa kwitu. Ni zawadi ya Nnongo.
For by grace you have been saved, through the Faith—and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9 Itokana kwaa ni makowe. Matokeo gake, abile kwaa mundu yumo ywa kujisifu.
not by works, so that no one may boast.
10 Kwa sababu twenga twabile kazi ya Nnongo. tuumbilwe mu'Kristo Yesu upanga makowe yanoite. Ni makowe aga ambayo Nnongo agapangite tangu zamani za kale kwaajili yitu, ili tutyange mu'agoo.
You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.
11 Kwa nyo mukumbukye kuwa kunchogo mwabile bandu ba mataifa kwa namna ya yega. Mkemelwa”mbile kwaa ni tohara” kwa chelo chakemelwa tohara ya yega yapangilwe kwa maboko ga bandu.
So then, remember that once you physical Gentiles—called ‘uncircumcision’ by the so-called ‘circumcision’ (that made in flesh with hands)—
12 Kwa muda woo mwabile mwati tengwa na Kristo. Mwabile ageni kwa bandu ba Israeli. Mwabile ageni kwa liagano lya ahadi. Mwabile kwaa ni uhakika wa muda uisile. Mwabile bila Nnongo mu'ulimwengu.
that at that time you were apart from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 Lakini nambeambe mu'Kristo Yesu mwenga ambao kunchogo mwabile kutalu ni Nnongo mpangilwe papipi ni Nnongo kwa mwai ya Kristo.
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have come to be near through the blood of the Christ.
14 Kwa mana ywembe nga amani yitu. Apangite abele kuwa yumo. Kwa yega yake atikuuharibu ukuta wa utengano wabile utitenganisha, huo uadui.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one and broken down the barrier of separation—the law with its commandments and ordinances—
15 Kwamba atikuikomesha saliya ya amri na kanuni ili aumbile mundu yumo wayambe nkati yake. Apangite amani.
having abolished the enmity through His ‘flesh’, so as to mold the two [Jew and Gentile] into one new man in Himself (thus making peace),
16 Apangite nyoo ili kubakwembanisha makundi abele ya bandu kuwa yega yimo kwa Nnongo petya msalaba. Kwa ndela ya msalaba aupangite uadui kuwa kiwo
and to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross (by which He killed the enmity).
17 Yesu aisile ni kutangaza amani kwinu mwenga mwabile kutalu ni amani kwa balo babile papipi.
He came and proclaimed peace to us, being both far and near,
18 Kwa mana kwa ndela ya Yesu twenga abele tubile na nafasi kwa yolo Roho yumo kuyingya kwa Tate.
because through Him we both have access to the Father, by one Spirit.
19 Nyoo bai, mwenga bandu ba mataifa mwasafiri kwaa ni ageni kae. Ila mwa wenyeji pamope ni balo batengwile kwa ajili ya Nnongo ni ajumbe mu'nyumba ya Nnongo.
So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,
20 Mchengwilwe nnani ya msingi wa mitume ni manabii. Kristo Yesu mwene abile liwe kolo lya mbembeni.
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone;
21 Mu'ywembe lyengo lyoti latikuunganisha pamope ni kukua kati hekalu nkati ya Ngwana.
in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
22 Ni nkati yake mwenga mchengwilwe pamope kati mahali pa tamya pa Nnongo mu'Roho.
in whom you also are being built together to become a habitation of God in spirit.
