1 Yohani 4

1 Waganja wangu, namumjimira kila muntu yakalonga kuwera kalongoziwa na Rohu gwa Mlungu, kumbiti mujeri handa muntu ayu kalongoziwa na Rohu gwa Mlungu ama ndala, toziya wambuyi wavuwa wa upayira walawira pasipanu.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Ayi ndo ntambu ya kuvimana handa muntu kankulongoziwa na Rohu gwa Mlungu ama ndala, kila muntu yakatakula kuwera, nakaka Yesu Kristu kiziti na kawera muntu, muntu ayu kalongoziwa na Rohu gwa Mlungu.

By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

3 Kumbiti muntu yoseri yakamtakula ndiri Yesu ntambu ayi, yomberi kahera Rohu yakalawa kwa Mlungu. Muntu ayu kawera na rohu ya Mngondu gwa Kristu, mwenga mpikaniriti kala kuwera kankwiza na vinu kasoka kala mupasipanu.

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

4 Kumbiti mwenga wana wangu, ndo wakuwi Mlungu na muwakanka kala wambuyi wa upayira, toziya Rohu yakawera mngati mwenu kana makakala kuliku rohu yakawera mngati mwa wantu wa pasipanu.

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

5 Wambuyi wapayira walonga vitwatira vya pasipanu na wantu wa pasipanu wawapikinira toziya womberi ndo wantu wa pasipanu.

They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

6 Kumbiti twenga twawantu wa Mlungu. Muntu yakamumana Mlungu, katupikinira twenga, kumbiti muntu yoseri yakamumana ndiri Mlungu, yomberi hapeni katupikiniri. Su kwa ntambu ayi tuweza kuvimana kuwera kwana Rohu gwa unakaka na rohu gwa upayira.

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.

7 Waganja wangu, tulifiri twenga kwa twenga, toziya ufiru ulawa kwa Mlungu. Kila muntu yakawera na ufiru kawera mwana gwa Mlungu na yomberi kamumana Mlungu.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 Muntu yoseri yakahera ufiru kamumana ndiri Mlungu, toziya Mlungu ndo ufiru.

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 Na Mlungu kalanguziyiti ufiru wakuwi kwa twenga kwa kumtuma Mwana gwakuwi gwa gweka pasipanu, su tuweri na ukomu kupitira yomberi.

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

10 Agu ndo ufiru, twenga ndiri yatumfiriti Mlungu, kumbiti Mlungu ndo yakatufiriti twenga, su kamtumiti Mwana gwakuwi kaweri tambiku yayilaviwitwi toziya ya ulekiziwu wa vidoda vyetu.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

11 Waganja wangu, handa Mlungu katufiriti ntambu ayi, su twenga tufiruwa kulifira twaweni kwa twaweni.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

12 Kwahera muntu yakamwoniti Mlungu nakamu, kumbiti handa patulifira twaweni kwa twaweni, Mlungu kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na twenga na ufiru wakuwi uwera teratera mngati mwetu.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

13 Tuvimana kuwera twenga tulikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na Mlungu na Mlungu kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na twenga, toziya mweni katupanana Rohu gwakuwi.

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

14 Na twenga tuwona na kukapitaulira kuwera Tati kamtumiti Mwana gwakuwi su kaweri Mlopoziya gwa wantu wa pasipanu poseri.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

15 Handa Kila muntu yakajimira kuwera Yesu ndo Mwana gwa Mlungu, Mlungu kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na muntu ayu, nayomberi kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na Mlungu.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

16 Su twenga tuvimana na tujimira ufiru yakaweriti nawu Mlungu kwa twenga. Mlungu ndo ufiru na kila muntu yakalikala muufiru, kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na Mlungu na Mlungu kalikala mukulikolerana pamuhera na yomberi.

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

17 Kwa njira ayi, ufiru uwera teratera mngati mwenu su natutira mulishaka lilii lya utoza, toziya makaliru getu pasipanu galifana na galii ga Kristu.

In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.

18 Muwufiru kwahera lyoga. Kumbiti ufiru yawuwera teratera uwinga lyoga lyoseri, lyoga liza toziya wantu wankutira azabu. Muntu ulii yakawera na lyoga kawera teratera ndiri muufiru.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

19 Twenga tuwera na ufiru toziya Mlungu katufiriti kwanja.

We love because He first loved us.

20 Muntu pakalonga, “Numufira Mlungu,” kumbiti kankumkalalira mlongu gwakuwi, yomberi kawera mpayira. Toziya kila muntu yakamfira ndiri mlongu gwakuwi yakamwona, hapeni kamfiri Mlungu yakamwona ndiri.

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

21 Na Kristu katupananiti lilagaliru ali, muntu yoseri yakamfira Mlungu, viraa kafiruwa kamfiri mlongu gwakuwi.

And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.