1 Watesaloniki 2
1 Walongu maweni mwenga muvimana handa kutyangira kwetu kwa mwenga kuweriti kwa hera ndiri.
Yes, friends, you yourselves know that your reception of us was not without result.
2 Muvimana ntambu yawatuzurumiti na kutwigiranga Filipi pamberi pa kwiza kwa mwenga Tesaloniki, tembera kuweriti na usinganu uvuwa Mlungu gwetu katuyupiti ugangamala wa kuwabwelerani Shisoweru shakuwi Shiwagira.
For, although we had experienced suffering and ill treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God’s good news in spite of great opposition.
3 Shitwatira sha kuhimiziya kwa mwenga, shitwatira shangali kulitumbira mbayu ama nfiru idoda, wala tufirandiri kumpayira muntu yoseri.
Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.
4 Twenga tutakula mashaka goseri handa ntambu yakafira Mlungu toziya yomberi katuwona waheri kupananwa lihengu lya kushibwera Shisoweru ashi Shiwagira, nfiru ya twenga kuwafiriziya wantu ata shididini ira tufira kumfiriziya Mlungu kavimana myoyu ya twenga mpaka mngati.
But, having been found worthy by God to be entrusted with the good news, therefore we tell it; with a view to please, not people, but God who proves our hearts.
5 Mana handa ntambu yamvimana, twenga tutenderiti ndiri visoweru vya kuzyangazyanga na kufifa uweni wumwawu. Mlungu ndo kapitawu.
Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.
6 Tusakula ndiri kuzyumwa kulawa kwa wantu, pota kulawa kwa mwenga, pota kulawa kwa muntu yoseri
Nor did we seek to win honour from people, whether from you or from others, although, as apostles of Christ, we might have burdened you with our support.
7 Tembera twenga patuwera wantumintumi wa Kristu, metuwezi kuluwa shintu kwa mwenga. Kumbiti twenga tuweriti wanonu pakati penu gambira mawu ntambu yakalera mwana gwakuwi.
But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.
8 Tuwafiriti mwenga nentu ata tuwera kala kuwagambira Shisoweru Shiwagira hera sha Mlungu, kumbiti viraa na makaliru getu. Ntambu yamwera wantu mtufira!
In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God’s good news, but our lives as well – so dear had you become to us.
9 Waumini wayetu, nakaka mulihola ntambu yatutenditi lihengu na kugazika, tutenditi lihengu paliwala na pashiru su natwiza kuwera shisanka kwa mwenga patuwabweleriti Shisoweru Shiwagira sha Mlungu.
You will not have forgotten, friends, our labour and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s good news.
10 Mwenga mwawakapitawu na Mlungu viraa kapitawu, mgenderanu gwetu ntambu yaguwera pakati pa mwenga yamjimira guweriti mnanagala na mkamilika kulongolu kwa Mlungu na pota kuwera na vidoda.
You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach.
11 Mwenga muvimana, twenga tumtendiriti kila yumu gwenu gambira tati ntambu yakawera na wananguta wakuwi.
Indeed, you know that, like a father with his own children, we used to encourage and comfort every one of you, and solemnly plead with you;
12 Tuwatenditi muweri na moyu na kuwahimiziya su mpati kulikala makaliru ga kumfiriziya Mlungu yakawashemani mngati mwa Ufalumi na ukwisa wakuwi mweni.
so that you should make your daily lives worthy of God who is calling you into the glory of his kingdom.
13 Na kwa toziya ayi, twenga twendereya kulonga mayagashii Mlungu kuwera mwenga pamwankiti shisoweru sha Mlungu shamshipikinira kulawa kwa twenga, mushijimiriti ndiri gambira shisoweru sha muntu kumbiti ntambu yaiwera, shisoweru sha Mlungu shashitenda lihengu mngati mwa mwenga yamjimira.
This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God – because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of humans, but as what it really is – the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.
14 Mwenga walongu wayetu, mwenga muweriti mfanu gwa vipinga vya wantu vyavimjimira Mlungu yawawera Muyudeya, mu Kristu Yesu, toziya mgaziwitwi na wenikaya wayenu maweni gambira weni ntambu yawagaziwitwi na Wayawudi wayawu.
For you, friends, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow citizens, in the same way as those churches did at the hands of their people –
15 Ndoweni yawamlagiti Mtuwa Yesu pamuhera na wambuyi wa Mlungu, na watutabisiyiti na wankumkalaziya Mlungu na wawalema wantu.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all humanity,
16 Watujeriti kutuleweleriti twenga kuwabwelera wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi su nawalopoziwi. Mashaka goseri wawamemiziya shipimu sha vidoda vyawu. Upeleru wawu maya ga Mlungu gawatulukira.
for they try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation, and so are always filling up the measure of their iniquity. But the wrath of God has come upon them to the full!
17 Kumbiti waumini wayetu, kulekana kwa twenga na mwenga kuweriti kwa katepu hera, kayi kulekana aku kuweriti ndiri kwa rohu kumbiti kwa nshimba hera. Shakapanu kwa shipindi shitangala ndiri, tuweriti na matamata nkulu ya kufira kuwawona kayi masu kwa masu.
As for ourselves, friends, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time – though in body only, and not in spirit – made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong on us.
18 Toziya tufiriti kwiza kwa mwenga. Naneni Paulu ntenditi kayi na kayi, kumbiti Shetani katupingiriti.
That was why we made up our minds to go and see you – at least I, Paul, did, more than once – but Satan put difficulties in our way.
19 Hashi, patugoloka kulongolu kwa Mtuwa Yesu shipindi pashisoka, litumbiru lya twenga ama nemeleru ama toziya ya lifupu lya kulanguziya ukanga wa twenga haliweri shishi?
For what hope or joy will be ours, or what crown will we have to boast of, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming, if it isn’t you?
20 Yina, mwenga ndo mwaukwisa na nemeleru ya twenga.
You are our pride and our delight!
