Warumi 14
1 Muwashemeri wantu walii yawawera na njimiru ndidini, kumbiti namakakatalu nawomberi kuusu maholu gawu weni.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 Njimiru ya wantu wamu iwalekiziya womberi shintu shoseri, kumbiti muntu yakawera na njimiru ndidini kaliyaga likolu hera.
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 Muntu yakaliya shintu shoseri nakamtoza muntu yakaliya ndiri kila shintu na ulii yakaliya likolu hera nakamtoza muntu yakaliya kila shintu, toziya Mlungu kamshemera muntu ayu.
The person who eats meat must not despise the person who abstains from it; nor must the person who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received them.
4 Hashi, gwenga gwa gaa yagumtoza ntumintumi gwa muntu yumonga? Ali ndo lishawuli lya Mtuwa kuwera womberi wapati ama wapati ndiri. Womberi hawapati, toziya Mtuwa kaweza kuwatenda womberi wapati.
Who are you, that you should pass judgment on the servant of another? Their standing or falling concerns their own master. And stand they will, for their Master can enable them to stand.
5 Wantu wamu wahola kuwera lishaka tunga lyana ligoya nentu kuliku mashaka gamonga na wamonga walihola kuwera goseri gawera teratera. Kila muntu kaweri na msimamu gwa mahala gakuwi.
Again, one person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another considers all days to be alike. Everyone ought to be fully convinced in their own mind.
6 Wantu woseri yawalihola nentu kuusu lishaka tunga, watenda hangu kwa kumpanana ligoya Mtuwa. Womberi yawaliya kila shintu, watenda kwa kumpanana ligoya Mtuwa, toziya womberi walonga mayagashii Mlungu kwa shiboga. Na woseri yawaliya ndiri kila shintu, wankutenda hangu kwa kumpanana ligoya Mtuwa na walonga mayagashii Mlungu.
The person who observes a day, observes it to the Master’s honour. They, again, who eat meat eat it to the Master’s honour, for they give thanks to God; while the person who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master’s honour, and also gives thanks to God.
7 Twenga tulikala ndiri toziya ya twaweni twenga hera na twenga tuhowa ndiri toziya ya twaweni twenga hera.
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 Handa patulikala tulikala toziya ya Mtuwa na handa patuhowa tuhowa toziya ya Mtuwa. Su patuhowa ama patulikala, twenga twawantu wa Mtuwa.
for, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
9 Toziya Kristu kahowiti na kazyukiti su kapati kuwera Mtuwa gwa wakomu na yawahowiti.
The purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this – that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
10 Iwera hashi gwenga gwankuwatoza wamonga yawaliya likolu hera? Iwera hashi gwenga gwankuwabeza walongu wamonga yawaliya kila shintu? Twenga twoseri hatugoloki kutozwa kulongolu kwa Mlungu.
I would ask the one “Why do you judge other followers of the Lord?” And I would ask the other “Why do you despise them?” For we will all stand before the court of God.
11 Ntambu Malembu Mananagala galembwa, “Mtuwa kalonga, nakaka neni Mlungu mkomu, Kila muntu hakansuntamalili neni na kila muntu hakankwisi neni ndo Mlungu.”
For scripture says – “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.’”
12 Shakapanu kila muntu pakati pa twenga, hakalaviyi mawalanga kulongolu kwa Mlungu.
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 Su, tuleki kulitozana twaweni, kumbiti tuleki kutenda shoseri shashiwatenda wamonga watendi vidoda.
Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve – never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in the way of a fellow follower of the Lord.
14 Kulikolerana kwangu pamuhera na Mtuwa Yesu, kuntenda neni moni kwahera shiboga shashiwera shihumba, kumbiti handa gujimira kuwera shiboga shamu shiwera shihumba, shakapanu shiwera shihumba kwa gwenga.
Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is defiling in itself. A thing is “defiling” only to the person who holds it to be so.
15 Handa paguwatenduwa wamonga toziya ya shintu shoseri shaguliya, matendu gaku gahera mafiliru. Naguleka shiboga shaguliya shimwagamiziyi muntu ndomweni Kristu kahowiti toziya yamweni.
If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!
16 Su namjimira shintu shamushiwona kuwera shiheri washibeza.
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 Toziya Ufalumi wa Mlungu ndo ndiri kuliya na kulanda, kumbiti kumfiriziya Mlungu na kuwera na ponga na kuwera na nemeleru yayijegwa na Rohu Mnanagala.
For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
18 Na pagumtendera Kristu ntambu ayi, gwenga gumuherepeziya Mlungu na kujimirwa na wantu.
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 Su twenga tufiruwa mashaka goseri tuvitendi vitwatira vyavijega ponga na galii yagatutenda tulitangani twaweni.
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 Su nagulyagamiziya lihengu lyakatenditi Mlungu toziya ya viboga. Viboga vyoseri guweza kuliya, kumbiti iherepa ndiri kuliya viboga vyavimtenda muntu yoseri katendi vidoda.
Do not undo God’s work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is “clean,” yet, if a person eats so as to put a stumbling-block in the way of others, they do wrong.
21 Mbaka kuleka kuliya litota na kulanda togwa, ama kutenda shoseri shilii shashiwatenda walongu watendi vidoda.
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your fellow follower of the Lord.
22 Su gukoleri shagujimira kuusu shitwatira ashi, shakapanu pakati pa gwenga na Mlungu. Mbaka kwa wantu walii yawajimira ndiri kutenda vidoda, pawajimira kutenda shintu shoseri womberi wavimana kuwera goseri gaherepa
As for yourself – keep this conviction of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy the person who never has to condemn themselves in regard to something they think right!
23 kumbiti muntu yakahera unakaka kuusu shiboga shawaliya, Mlungu hakamtozi pawaliya, toziya matendu gawu gawera munjimiru. Na shoseri shashiwera ndiri munjimiru ndo vidoda.
The person, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if they still eat, because their doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.
