Warumi 3
1 Su Myawudi kana shishi shongeleka kuliku wamonga? Ama kwingira jandu kwana mota gaa?
What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision?
2 Yina, kwana mota zivuwa! Mlungu kawapananiti huti Wayawudi ujumbi wakuwi.
Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God’s utterances.
3 Kumbiti hashiweri ashi handa wamu wawu waweriti ndiri wajimirika, hashi, shitwatira ashi hashiwusiyi ujimirika wa Mlungu?
What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid!
4 Ndala! Mlungu hakasigali gwa nakaka mashaka goseri, tembera wantu woseri wawera wapaya. Malembu Mananagala galembwa, “Kila paguyowera, visoweru vyaku vyavimfiriziya Mlungu, hagukanki masitaka gaku mushizyungu.”
God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God – “That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.”
5 Kumbiti payiwera vidoda vyetu vilanguziya kuwera Mlungu kankutenda kwa uheri, su hatulongi kuwera Mlungu kapata ndiri uheri pakatwazibu? Neni nankutakula shimuntu.
But what if our wrongdoing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid!
6 Ndala! Meyiweri hangu, hashi Mlungu mekawezi kutoza pasipanu?
Otherwise how can God judge the world?
7 Pamonga hagulongi, payiwera neni namwaminika ndiri, wankumlanguziya Mlungu kuwera mwaminika nentu na kumpanana ukwisa, su mentakiwiti ndiri kutozwa kuwera gambira muntu yakana vidoda!
But, if my falsehood redounds to the glory of God, by making his truthfulness more apparent, why am I like others, still condemned as a sinner?
8 Sawa na kulonga, “Tutendi vidoda su tupati viheri!” Wantu wamonga watuhigilanga kwa kutupayira handa tufunda ntambu ayi. Womberi hawatozwi ntambu yawafiruwa.
Why should we not say – as some people slanderously assert that we do say – “Let us do evil that good may come”? The condemnation of such people is indeed just!
9 “Hashi, tulongi kuwera Wayawudi ndo waheri kuliku wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi? Ndala! Nanguziya kala kuwera Wayawudi pamuhera na wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi, woseri walongoziwa na vidoda.”
What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.
10 Ntambu Malembu Mananagala galembwa, “Kwahera ata muntu yumu yakawera muheri kulongolu kwa Mlungu,
As scripture says – “There is not even one who is righteous,
11 Kwahera muntu yakavimana ama ndomweni yakamsakula Mlungu.
not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!
12 Woseri wapotoka, woseri wakosa, kwahera yakatenda viheri, kwahera ata muntu yumu.
They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good – no, not one!”
13 Makulamiru gawu gawera gambira lipumba lyalupalahera, milimi yawu yimema upayira, na mumilomu mwawu mlawa visoweru vyavilifana gambira usungu wa njoka.
“Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.” “The venom of snakes lies behind their lips,”
14 Visoweru vyawu vimema virapu vikalipa.
“And their mouths are full of bitter curses.”
15 Magulu gawu gakanongola kulaga,
“Swift are their feet to shed blood.
16 Poseri pawagenda, womberi waleka ntabika na uharibisiya.
Distress and trouble dog their steps,
17 Womberi wayimana ndiri njira ya ponga,
and the path of peace they do not know.”
18 Wamtira ndiri Mlungu.”
“The fear of God is not before their eyes.”
19 Vinu tuvimana kuwera kila shintu Mulilagaliru lya Musa, shiwawusu wantu woseri yawawera pasi pa Lilagaliru lya Musa, su kuwanyamaziya wantu woseri na kutenda pasipanu poseri paweri pa utoza wa Mlungu.
Now we know that everything said in the Law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and to bring the whole world under God’s judgment.
20 Toziya kwahera muntu yoseri yakajimirwa kuwera muheri kulongolu kwa Mlungu kwa kutenda shashilagalirwa Mumalagaliru ga Musa. Lihengu lya Lilagaliru lya Musa ndo kutulanguziya hera twenga handa twana vidoda.
For no human being will be pronounced righteous before God as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.
21 Kumbiti vinu, Mlungu yakatutenda twenga tuweri waheri kulongolu kwakuwi pota lilagaliru lya Musa. Lilagaliru lya Musa na malembu ga wambuyi wa Mlungu galaviya ukapitawu mushitwatira ashi.
But now, quite apart from Law, the divine righteousness stands revealed, and to it the Law and the prophets bear witness –
22 Mlungu kawajimira wantu kuwera waheri kulongolu kwakuwi kupitira njimiru yawu kwa Yesu Kristu. Mlungu katendaga hangu kwa woseri yawamjimira Kristu, toziya kwahera ubagula woseri.
the divine righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, on all, without distinction, who believe in him.
23 Wantu woseri watenda vidoda na wapatali na ukwisa wa Mlungu.
For all have sinned, and all fall short of God’s glorious ideal,
24 Kumbiti kwa lifupu lya manemu ga Mlungu, wantu woseri wamfiriziya Mlungu kwa njira ya Yesu Kristu yakawakombola.
but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
25 Mlungu kamlaviyiti Yesu, su kwa mwazi gwakuwi kaweri njira ya kuwalekiziya wantu vidoda vyawu kwa njimiru yawu kwakuwi. Mlungu katenditi hangu su kapati kulanguziya kuwera mweni ndo muheri. Pamakashu Mlungu kaweriti muhepelera pota na kulishera vidoda vya wantu.
For God set him before the world, to be, by the shedding of his blood, a means of reconciliation through faith. And this God did to prove his righteousness, and because, in his forbearance, he had passed over the sins that people had previously committed;
26 Kwa njira ayi Mlungu kalanguziya kuwera mweni ndo muheri vinu na kamtenda muntu yoseri yakamjimira Yesu, kaweri muheri kulongolu kwakuwi.
as a proof, I repeat, at the present time, of his own righteousness, that he might be righteous in our eyes, and might pronounce righteous the person who takes their stand on faith in Jesus.
27 Hashi, tuweza kulitumbira kwantambu gaa? Ndala! Hashi, tulitumbira shishi? Hashi, tuweza kulitumbira mahengu getu? Ndala! Twenga tulopoziwa kwa njimiru.
What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.
28 Toziya Mlungu kamtenda muntu kuwera muheri kulongolu kwakuwi kwa njimiru. Mlungu kawatenditi ndiri hangu toziya wankutenda shilii shashilagalirwa Mumalagaliru.
For we conclude that a person is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.
29 Hashi, Mlungu ndo Mlungu gwa Wayawudi hera, ama viraa gwa wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi? Yina, Mlungu ndo gwa wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi viraa.
Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles?
30 Mlungu ndo yumu na yomberi hakawatendi Wayawudi kuwera waheri kulongolu kwakuwi kwa njimiru yawu na hakawatendi wantu yawawera ndiri Wayawudi kuwera waheri kulongolu kwakuwi kwa njimiru yawu viraa.
Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one God, and he will pronounce those who are circumcised righteous as the result of faith, and also those who are uncircumcised on their showing the same faith.
31 Hashi, twankuitendera njimiru kugaleka Malagaliru? Ndala, kumbiti twankugajimira malagaliru gaweri na makakala nentu.
Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
