Abhagalatia 3
1 Bhagalatia mulibhalema lisowele ibhibhi lyalibhanankenye? Antele uYesu Kilisti sagahwibhonezwezwe aje agogwilye hwitagalila humapo genyu?
Foolish Galatians! Who has been enchanting you – you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was depicted on the cross?
2 Ane ewanza aje emanye eli afume hwilumwe. Je mwahambiye Roho humatendo age bele au alyeteho wla lyumwahovzwe?
Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you – Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?
3 Antele amwe mlibhalema paka esho? antele mwahandile hweshi Roho ili mmale eshe bele?
Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
4 Antele mwalabhile humbo aminji wene, nkashile lyoli galigewene?
Did you go through so much to no purpose? – if indeed it really was to no purpose!
5 Antele umwahale afumizwe Roho maha kati ya bihwilimwe na bhombe amatendo agamaha kati ya hwilimwe abhombo humatendo ageshelia au ahovwe pandwemo no lyeteko?
He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers – does he do this as the result of obedience to Law? Or as the result of your having listened with faith?
6 U Abrahamu amweteshe Ongolobhe abhaziwe aje welyoli”.
It is just as it was with Abraham – he had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.
7 Sheshile manyaji aje bhalo bha bhahumweteha bhana bha u Abrahamu.
You see, then, that those whose lives are based on faith are the sons of Abraham.
8 Ensimbo ya kuhwilwe aje Ungolobhe abhabhazizwe elyoli abhantu bhasebhaputa hwidala elyelyuteho pawandilo bha Ebrahimu: “ashilile awe bhasebhaputa bhonti bhayisayilwa.”
And scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the good news to Abraham in the words – ‘Through you all the Gentiles will be blessed.’
9 Hwitagalila bhala ambao bhana lyeteho bhabarikiwaje pandwemo no Abrahamu ambaye alinolyeteho.
And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed on the faith of Abraham.
10 Bhala ambao bhategemela amate ndo age sheria bhalipansi pamakhosi antele isimbwilwe alinamakhosi shele muntu yasalipandwemo na mambo gonti gagasimbilwe mshitabu eshe sheria, agabhombe gonti.”
All who rely on obedience to Law are under a curse, for scripture says – ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the book of the Law, and do it.’
11 Eshi huliwazi hwa Ngolobhe semubhaziwa elyoli hata amohwidalo elyesheria afwanaje yalinelyoli bhakhala hulyeteho.”
Again, it is evident that no one is pronounced righteous before God through Law, for we read – ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’
12 Eshelia sefumilana nolyeteho badala yakwe “Antele abhomba hwahusheria aikhala kisheria.”
But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are – ‘Those who practice these precepts will find life through them.’
13 U Kilisti atauye ate afume mumakhosi eyesheliya antele abhombeshe makhosi kwajili eyahwiliti antele isibwilwe aje shele muntu alinamakhosi ya khomelewe pamwanya eyikwi, lyalilaje.”
Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for scripture says – ‘Cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.’
14 Ilengo lyalilyaje usayo lwalwali wa Ibrahimu zigezele hwabhantu abhema taifa hwidala elya Yesu Kilisti, ili liwezwe aposhele ehadi eya Roho ashilile hulyeteho.
And this he did that the blessing given to Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through their union with Jesus Christ; that so, through our faith, we also might receive the promised gift of the Spirit.
15 Bhaholo eyanga hushibinadamu. Hata wakati ilagano elyeshibinadamu limalishe abhehwe imara nomo yagawezwa alipuzwa wala ahwunjezwe.
To take an illustration, friends, from daily life – No one sets aside even an agreement between two people, when once it has been confirmed, nor do they add conditions to it.
16 Eshe ahadi zyayanjele hwa Ibrahimu huvikholo vyakwe. Sayanga, “aje evikholo” amarusye awingi. antele ambaye yo Kilisti.
Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, ‘and to his offspring.’ It was not said ‘to his offsprings,’ as if many persons were meant, but the words were ‘to your offspring,’ showing that one person was meant – and that was Christ.
17 Eshi eyanga eshi, esheria yehenzeleamaha 430 sehwefwa ilagano elyahwisalo lyalyabhehwelye no Ngolobhe.
My point is this – An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.
18 Antele kashile ulugano ugenzele hwidala elyehadi. Eshe Ungolobhe afumizwe wene hwa Ibrahimu hwidala elye ahadi.
If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.
19 Yenu eshi esheria bhayefwinzwe? yalongozyezye husababu eyemakosa paka eshikholo esha Ibrahimu ayenze hwabhala ambao hwabhale bhalagene. Esheria ehabhehwelye neshinikizo ashilile u malaika hukhono gwa upatanishi.
What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make people conscious of their wrongdoings, and intended to last only until the coming of that offspring to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.
20 Eshi upanyi amanisya tee muntu umo, Ungulubhi ahomo mwene.
Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.
21 Eshi je esheria ehwelishinyume neahadi zwa Ngolobhe? atahashe antele nkashile esheria yehali ifuiziwe yalinamaha agalete owomi, lyoli agapatihene husheria.
Does that set the Law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.
22 Antene badala ye nsimbo lifunjele amambo goti pasi yembibhi. Ungolobhe abhombile esheili ndagano zwakwe zitaule ate ashilile hulyeho lyu Yesu Kilisti iwezehane apatihane hwabhala bhabhetishe.
But the words of scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.
23 Antele sabhasele aweteshe hwa Kilisti sahenzele talitifungwilye anabhe pasi yesheria hadi hwenze ufunuo wa lyeteho.
Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the faith that was destined to be revealed.
24 Eshe eyo esheria yabhombile olongozi wetu hadi Kilisti ahenzele ili atele tubhaziwe elyoli nolyeteho.
Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.
25 Eshe abhe ulyeteho lyenzele setihweli pansi ya mwenyelezi.
But now that faith has come we no longer need a guide.
26 Eshe amwe mwene mbhana bha Ngolobhe ashilile hulyeteho lya Kristu Yesu.
For you are all sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.
27 Bwonti bhabhozwe hwa Kristu mkwete U Kristu.
For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 Momo UMyahudi wala UMyunani, mtumwa wala umwaule, ulume afwanaje amwe mwenti mliomohwa Kristu Yesu.
All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
29 Nkashile amwe mlibhe Kristu, basi mlishikholo sha Ibrahimu, wagali alenganisye nendagano.
And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.
