1 Wakorintu 4
1 Muntu katuwoni twenga twantumintumi wa Kristu yatupananitwi uwezu wa Mlungu.
So a person should consider us as Messiah's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
2 Vinu shashifiruwa kwa yoseri yakapananitwi lihengu kaweri mwaminika.
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
3 Kwa neni shintu ndiri pantozwa na mwenga, ama pantozwa na wantu na hapeni nulitozi namweni.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I do not judge my own self.
4 Toziya nuvimana ndiri kulitoza namweni, kumbiti shintu ashi shilanguziya ndiri kuwera neni nana likosa. Mtuwa ndo yankatoza neni.
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
5 Su, namtoza shitwatila shoseri pamberi pa shipindi shakuwi kusoka, mleki mpaka Mtuwa pakiza. Yomberi hakavilaviyi vitwatira vyavilififiti muluwindu na kulanguziya nfiru ya mmoyu ya wantu. Panu kila muntu hakapati uzyumi wakuwi kulawa kwa Mlungu.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one will get his praise from God.
6 Wantu yawamjimira Yesu wayangu, numtumiti Apolu na neni namweni su kupitira kwa twenga mulifundi mfanu agu, “Mgaloli weri gagalembitwi.” Nakawera muntu yoseri yakalitumbira muntu yumu na kumzalawu yumonga.
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
7 Gani kakutenda guweri mkulu kuliku yumonga? Hashi, Mlungu kakupananiti ndiri kila shintu shaguwera nashu? Na payiwera gupananwa, iwera hashi gulitumbira kuwera gupananwa ndiri?
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
8 Muwera kala na kila shintu shamfira! Muwera kala mwawalunda! Muwera mwawafalumi pota ya twenga! Yina, menfiri nakaka muweri wafalumi, su natwenga vilaa tuweri wafalumi pamuhera na mwenga.
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 Nulihola Mlungu katutenda twenga wantumintumi tuweri wantu wa upeleru nakamu, gambira wantu yawatozitwi kuhowa, toziya tuwera msambu gwa pasipanu poseri na kulongolu kwa wantumintumi wa kumpindi na kulongolu kwa wantu.
For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and people.
10 Twenga twawazigizigi toziya ya kumtendera Kristu, kumbiti mwenga muwera na mahala kwa kulikolerana pamuhera na Kristu! Twenga twalegilegi, mwenga mwawavikambaku. Mwenga mbezika ndiri, kumbiti twenga twankubezika.
We are fools for Messiah's sake, but you are wise in Messiah. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
11 Mpaka vinu, twenga twana njala, kuyumuluwa, twahera nguwu, wankutukomanga nentu na twahera pakugonja.
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
12 Su twankutabika kutenda lihengu likamala kwa mawoku getu twaweni. Patupangilwa, twenga twankuwatekelera, pawatutabisiya, twenga tuhepelera,
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
13 pawatwigiranga, twenga twankula kwa ligoya. Mpaka vinu watutendera gambira udoda wa pasipanu na kila muntu katuwona twenga twauhakata.
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
14 Nembiti ndiri vitwatira avi kuwasoniziya mwenga, kumbiti kuwafunda gambira wana wangu yanuwafira
I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 Toziya ata pamuwera na walera wavuwa mumakaliru genu ga Shikristu, tati gwenu ndo yumu hera. Mukulikolerana na Kristu Yesu neni wera tati gwenu kwa kuwabwelerani Shisoweru Shiwagira.
For though you have ten thousand tutors in Messiah, yet not many fathers. For in Messiah Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.
16 Su nuwaluwani mwenga mfati mfanu gwangu.
I appeal to you therefore, be imitators of me.
17 Toziya ayi neni numtuma Timotewu kwa mwenga. Yomberi ndo yakawera gambira mwana gwangu mngati mwa Kristu yanumfira na mwaminika mukulikolerana na Mtuwa. Yomberi hakawaholiziyi njira yanuyigendera mukulikolelerana pamuhera na Kristu, njira yanuyifunda pahala poseri pa shipinga shoseri sha wantu shawamjira Yesu.
Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Messiah, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Wamu wenu wanja kulitumba pawalihola kuwera hapeni nizi kayi kwa mwenga.
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
19 Kumbiti Mtuwa pakafira, hanizi kwa mwenga kanongola, panu hanuliwoneli namweni, galii ndiri gawagatakula gweka yakuwi kumbiti makakala gawawera naga.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20 Toziya Ufalumi wa Mlungu uwera ndiri visoweru vya mlomu, kumbiti wa makakala.
For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 Hashi, mwenga mfira shishi? Hashi, nizi kwa mwenga na ntomondu, ama nizi na moyu gwa mafiliru na unanagala?
What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
