Baebrania 12
1 Kwa eyo, kwa mana tumezungukwa na liunde likolo lya mashahidi, tutupe kila kilebe chatulemea pamope ni sambi yaibile yatuzingira kiurahisi. Tupange mbio kwa saburi katika mashindano yabekilwe nnongi yitu.
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, having put off every weight, and the closely besetting sin, may we run the contest that is set before us through endurance,
2 Tugaelekeze minyo yitu kwa Yesu, ywabile mwanzilishi na ywaitimiza imani yitu, ambaye kwa ajili ya puraha ibekilwe nnongi ya ywastamili msalaba, mana atiidharau kiya yake, na tama pae luboko lwa kummalyo lwa iteo sa enzi sa Nnongo.
looking to the Author and Perfecter of the faith—Jesus, who, for the joy set before Him, endured a cross, having despised shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God;
3 Mana mumfikirie ywembe ywastamili maneno ga chuki boka kwa babile ni sambi, dhidi yake mwene ili panga muise kwaa muchokite au kuzimya mioyo yinu.
for again consider Him who endured such contradiction from the sinners to Himself, that you may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.
4 Mwataabika kewaa au teseka pamushindana na sambi kiasi cha ishiwa na mwai.
You did not yet resist to blood—striving with sin;
5 Mwasahau kae kolo kutiwa mwoyo ambako kunabaelekeza kati bana analome: “Mwana wango. kana ugatole kwa wepesi maruda ga Ngwana, wala kana ukate tamaa paurekebishilwe ni ywembe.”
and you have forgotten the exhortation that speaks fully to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise [the] discipline of [the] LORD, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
6 Kwa mana Ngwana humwazibu yeyote ywaampendile, na kumwadhibu kila mwana ywabile ampokya kwaa.
for whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives”;
7 Mustahimili majaribu kati kurudiwa. Nnongo hushughulika ni mwenga kati ywashughulika na bana, mana ni mwana gani ambae tate bake aweza kwaa kumwazibu?
if you endure discipline, God bears Himself to you as to sons, for who is a son whom a father does not discipline?
8 Lakini mana ntopo adhibiwa, ambako twenga twabote twashiriki, bai ni mwenga ni haramu na bana bake kwaa.
And if you are apart from discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons.
9 Zaidi ya yote, tubile na tate bitu mu'dunia ba kutuazibu, na twatibaheshimiya. Je tupalikwa kwaa hata zaidi kumweshimu Tate ba kiroho na tama?
Then, indeed, we have had fathers of our flesh, correctors, and we respected [them]; will we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
10 Hakika tate bitu batituazibu kwa miaka michunu kati yatibenekana sawa kwabe, lakini Nnongo utuazibu kwa faida yitu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
11 Ntopo azabu yaipuraisha kwa muda woo. Upangika na matamwe. Hata nyo, baadaye upambika tunda lya amani ya utauwa kwa balo bapundishilwe nabo.
and all discipline for the present, indeed, does not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it.
12 Kwa eyo muinue maboko ginu yailegea na kupanga magoti yinu gabile dhaifu kuwa gabile ni ngupu kae;
For this reason, lift up the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees;
13 Munyoshe mapito ga nyayo yinu, ili panga yeyote ywabile mlemavu ayongoli kwaa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed;
14 Muipale amani na bandu bote, na utakatifu kae ambao bila huo ntopo ywamwona Ngwana.
pursue peace with all, and the separation, apart from which no one will see the LORD,
15 Mube baangalifu ili panga abile kwaa ywatengwa kutalu na neema ga Nnongo, na panga iise kwaa shina lya uchungu lyalowa chipuka na kusababisha shida na kukerebuya benge.
observing lest anyone be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
16 Mulolekeye kuwa ntopo umalaya au mundu ywabile kwaa mtauwa kati yaa Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo umo atipemeya haki yake ya belekwa.
lest anyone be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food sold his birthright,
17 Kwa mana mutangite panga baadaye, atitamaniya kurithi baraka, atikanikiwa, kwa sababu apatike kwaa fursa ya tubu pamope ni tate bake, hata ingawa agapalike muno kwa machozi.
for you know that also afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for he did not find a place of conversion, though having sought it with tears.
18 Kwa mana muisa kwaa katika kitombe ambazo waweza kwaa kamwa. Nnema watiyaka mwoto, libendo, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
For you did not come near to the mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and storm,
19 Mwaisa kwaa kwa lilobe lya tarumbeta, au kwa maneno gabokana na lilobe ambalo lyatisababisha kila baliyowine balobe kwaa neno lolote longela kwabe.
and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of sayings, which those having heard begged that a word might not be added to them,
20 Kwa mana baweza kwaa vumiliya chelo chaamuliwa: “Mana itei hata mnyama ywakamwile kitombe, lazima akombolwe ni maliwe.”
for they were not bearing that which is commanded, “And if a beast may touch the mountain, it will be stoned, or shot through with an arrow,”
21 Ya yogopeya muno yaagabweni Musa abayite, “Namuogopeya muno kiasi cha lendema.”
and (so terrible was the sight), Moses said, “I am exceedingly fearful, and trembling.”
22 Baada yake, muisile pakitombe sa Sayuni na katika mji wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto, Yerusalemu ya kumaunde, na kwa malaika elfu komi batisherehekea.
But you came to Mount Zion, and to [the] city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
23 Muisile katika kusanyiko lya abeleki ba kwanza bote, na kwa roho ya batakatifu ambao batikamilishwa,
to the assembly-place and Assembly of the Firstborn registered in Heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,
24 Muisile kwa Yesu mpatanishi ba agano lyaayambe, na kwa mwai yainyunyuzilwe ambayo ulongela mema zaidi kuliko mwai ya Habili.
and to a mediator of a new covenant—Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
25 Linga kuwa kana uise ukamkataa yumo ywaalongela. Kwa kuwa mana batiepuka babile kunkataa yumo ywabile baonya dunia, kwa hakika twaepuka kwaa mana itei twakerebuka kutalu boka kwa yolo ywatukanya boka kumaunde.
Watch out lest you refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven,
26 Kwa muda woo lilobe lyake lyatitikisa dunia. Lakini nambeambe atiahidi na longela, “Bado mara yenge kae nalowa tikisa kwaa dunia kichake, ila maunde kae.”
whose voice shook the earth then, and now He has promised, saying, “Yet once [more]—I shake not only the earth, but also Heaven”;
27 Maneno aga, “Mara jimo kae,” ibonekeya kutoweshwa kwa ilebe ya ilendemeshwayo, ayee nga, ilebe ambayo iumbwile, ili panga yelo ilebe yalendema kwaa vibakie.
and this, “Yet once [more],” makes evident the removal of the things shaken, as of things having been made, that the things not shaken may remain;
28 Kwa eyo, tupokii upwalume ambao ulendema kwaa, twapuraika katika hali ya kumwabudu Nnongo kwa yeketya pamope na nyenyekeya katika chelo.
for this reason, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and fear,
29 Kwa mana Nnongo witu ni mwoto waulyaa.
for our God [is] also a consuming fire.
