ဣဖိၐိဏး 4
1 အတော ဗန္ဒိရဟံ ပြဘော ရ္နာမ္နာ ယုၐ္မာန် ဝိနယေ ယူယံ ယေနာဟွာနေနာဟူတာသ္တဒုပယုက္တရူပေဏ
Therefore I, who am in prison because [I serve] the Lord [Jesus], urge you, whom God has chosen [to be his people, to do these things]: Conduct your lives as [God’s people] should.
2 သရွွထာ နမြတာံ မၖဒုတာံ တိတိက္ၐာံ ပရသ္ပရံ ပြမ္နာ သဟိၐ္ဏုတာဉ္စာစရတ၊
Always be humble, and do not demand your own rights. Be patient [with each other], and, because you love each other, endure each other’s ([irritating] behavior/behavior that you do not like).
3 ပြဏယဗန္ဓနေန စာတ္မန ဧကျံ ရက္ၐိတုံ ယတဓွံ၊
[God’s] Spirit has caused you to be united [with one another], so do all that you can to remain united [with one another] by acting peacefully [toward each other].
4 ယူယမ် ဧကၑရီရာ ဧကာတ္မာနၑ္စ တဒွဒ် အာဟွာနေန ယူယမ် ဧကပြတျာၑာပြာပ္တယေ သမာဟူတား၊
[All we believers form just one group] [MET], and we have only one [Holy] Spirit. Similarly, you were chosen {[God] chose you} in order that you all might confidently keep expecting one [set of good] things [from God].
5 ယုၐ္မာကမ် ဧကး ပြဘုရေကော ဝိၑွာသ ဧကံ မဇ္ဇနံ, သရွွေၐာံ တာတး
There is only one Lord, [Jesus Christ]. We all believe the same [teaching about him. It was to show that we belong to him] alone that [we had someone] baptize us.
6 သရွွောပရိသ္ထး သရွွဝျာပီ သရွွေၐာံ ယုၐ္မာကံ မဓျဝရ္တ္တီ စဲက ဤၑွရ အာသ္တေ၊
There is one God, who is the [spiritual] Father of all [us believers]. He [rules] over all his people; he enables all his people [to do powerful things] (OR, he sustains all his people); and his [Spirit lives] in all his people.
7 ကိန္တု ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ဒါနပရိမာဏာနုသာရာဒ် အသ္မာကမ် ဧကဲကသ္မဲ ဝိၑေၐော ဝရော'ဒါယိ၊
Christ has generously given to each one of us spiritual gifts, just like he decided to give them.
8 ယထာ လိခိတမ် အာသ္တေ, "ဦရ္ဒ္ဓွမ် အာရုဟျ ဇေတၖန် သ ဝိဇိတျ ဗန္ဒိနော'ကရောတ်၊ တတး သ မနုဇေဘျော'ပိ သွီယာန် ဝျၑြာဏယဒ် ဝရာန်။ "
[When Christ gave] gifts to his people, [it was similar to what the Psalmist said about God receiving tribute money] from those whom he had conquered, When he ascended to heaven, he gave as gifts to people the things [that he had taken] from the people whom he captured:
9 ဦရ္ဒ္ဓွမ် အာရုဟျေတိဝါကျသျာယမရ္ထး သ ပူရွွံ ပၖထိဝီရူပံ သရွွာဓးသ္ထိတံ သ္ထာနမ် အဝတီရ္ဏဝါန်;
The words ‘he ascended’ certainly imply/indicate [RHQ] that Christ had also previously descended to the earth.
10 ယၑ္စာဝတီရ္ဏဝါန် သ ဧဝ သွရ္ဂာဏာမ် ဥပရျျုပရျျာရူဎဝါန် ယတး သရွွာဏိ တေန ပူရယိတဝျာနိ၊
Christ, who descended [to earth], is also the one who ascended to the most exalted position in heaven, in order that he might show his power [MTY] throughout the universe.
11 သ ဧဝ စ ကာံၑ္စန ပြေရိတာန် အပရာန် ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနော'ပရာန် သုသံဝါဒပြစာရကာန် အပရာန် ပါလကာန် ဥပဒေၑကာံၑ္စ နိယုက္တဝါန်၊
He appointed some people to be apostles. He appointed some people to be (prophets/ones who reveal messages that come directly from God). He appointed some people to be (evangelists/ones whose work is to tell others the message about Christ). He appointed some people to lead and teach [the congregations].
12 ယာဝဒ် ဝယံ သရွွေ ဝိၑွာသသျေၑွရပုတြဝိၐယကသျ တတ္တွဇ္ဉာနသျ စဲကျံ သမ္ပူရ္ဏံ ပုရုၐရ္ထဉ္စာရ္ထတး ခြီၐ္ဋသျ သမ္ပူရ္ဏပရိမာဏသျ သမံ ပရိမာဏံ န ပြာပ္နုမသ္တာဝတ္
[He appointed all of these] in order that they would prepare God’s people to do [God’s] work, so that all the people who belong to Christ [MET] might become [spiritually] mature.
13 သ ပရိစရျျာကရ္မ္မသာဓနာယ ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ၑရီရသျ နိၐ္ဌာယဲ စ ပဝိတြလောကာနာံ သိဒ္ဓတာယာသ္တာဒၖၑမ် ဥပါယံ နိၑ္စိတဝါန်၊
He wants all of us [believers] to be united [because] we all believe in the Son of God (OR, the man who was also God) and [because] we all know [him]. He wants us to become spiritually mature; that is, he wants us to be (perfect/all that God wants us to be), [just like] Christ was ([perfect/all that God wanted him to be]).
14 အတဧဝ မာနုၐာဏာံ စာတုရီတော ဘြမကဓူရ္တ္တတာယာၑ္ဆလာစ္စ ဇာတေန သရွွေဏ ၑိက္ၐာဝါယုနာ ဝယံ ယဒ် ဗာလကာ ဣဝ ဒေါလာယမာနာ န ဘြာမျာမ ဣတျသ္မာဘိ ရျတိတဝျံ,
Then we will no longer be [spiritually immature], like [MET] little children [are immature]. We will no longer be constantly [changing what we believe, like] [MET] waves of the sea are [constantly changing as the wind blows and] tosses them back and forth. We will not allow people who teach [what is false] and who scheme to deceive/influence us.
15 ပြေမ္နာ သတျတာမ် အာစရဒ္ဘိး သရွွဝိၐယေ ခြီၐ္ဋမ် ဥဒ္ဒိၑျ ဝရ္ဒ္ဓိတဝျဉ္စ, ယတး သ မူရ္ဒ္ဓါ,
Instead, by loving [others] as we behave as [God’s] truth requires (OR, speak in a loving manner what is true), we will become more and more like Christ in every way. He is the one [who controls/guides all his people] [MET], [just like a person’s] head [controls/guides his] body.
16 တသ္မာစ္စဲကဲကသျာင်္ဂသျ သွသွပရိမာဏာနုသာရေဏ သာဟာယျကရဏာဒ် ဥပကာရကဲး သရွွဲး သန္ဓိဘိး ကၖတ္သ္နသျ ၑရီရသျ သံယောဂေ သမ္မိလနေ စ ဇာတေ ပြေမ္နာ နိၐ္ဌာံ လဘမာနံ ကၖတ္သ္နံ ၑရီရံ ဝၖဒ္ဓိံ ပြာပ္နောတိ၊
He [enables all those who belong to him to mature spiritually. A person’s body grows stronger, as] each part of the body is joined to the others by the ligaments and as each part (functions properly/works as it should). Similarly, believers will become mature [spiritually] by loving each other and by each of them doing the work [that God wants them to do] [MET].
17 ယုၐ္မာန် အဟံ ပြဘုနေဒံ ဗြဝီမျာဒိၑာမိ စ, အနျေ ဘိန္နဇာတီယာ ဣဝ ယူယံ ပူန ရ္မာစရတ၊
The Lord [Jesus] has authorized me to strongly tell you that you must no longer conduct your lives like unbelievers do. The futile/worthless way in which they think [MET] [controls how they conduct their lives].
18 ယတသ္တေ သွမနောမာယာမ် အာစရန္တျာန္တရိကာဇ္ဉာနာတ် မာနသိကကာဌိနျာစ္စ တိမိရာဝၖတဗုဒ္ဓယ ဤၑွရီယဇီဝနသျ ဗဂီရ္ဘူတာၑ္စ ဘဝန္တိ,
They are unable to think clearly [MET] [about what is right and what is wrong]. Because they have decided that they do not want to know about God and because they stubbornly [IDM] refuse to [listen to his message], they do not have the [eternal] life that God [gives us].
19 သွာန် စဲတနျၑူနျာန် ကၖတွာ စ လောဘေန သရွွဝိဓာၑော်စာစရဏာယ လမ္ပဋတာယာံ သွာန် သမရ္ပိတဝန္တး၊
The result is that because they have ceased (to care/to be concerned) [about what is right and what is wrong], they have (deliberately committed themselves to doing/wholeheartedly decided to do) the shameful things that their bodies want, and they commit all kinds of immoral acts, and continually are eager to do more of those things.
20 ကိန္တု ယူယံ ခြီၐ္ဋံ န တာဒၖၑံ ပရိစိတဝန္တး,
But when you learned [about] Christ, you did not learn [to behave] like that.
21 ယတော ယူယံ တံ ၑြုတဝန္တော ယာ သတျာ ၑိက္ၐာ ယီၑုတော လဘျာ တဒနုသာရာတ် တဒီယောပဒေၑံ ပြာပ္တဝန္တၑ္စေတိ မနျေ၊
I am sure that you heard the message about [Christ], and because you are people who have a close relationship with him, you were taught {[others] taught you} the true [way to live] that Jesus [showed us].
22 တသ္မာတ် ပူရွွကာလိကာစာရကာရီ ယး ပုရာတနပုရုၐော မာယာဘိလာၐဲ ရ္နၑျတိ တံ တျက္တွာ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရ္မာနသိကဘာဝေါ နူတနီကရ္တ္တဝျး,
[You were taught] {[They taught you]} that you must put aside [MET] your evil nature; [that is, that you must not behave like you formerly did]. Your evil desires deceived you, making you want to do evil things and causing you to think that [doing that was good for you]; and your thinking like that was destroying you [spiritually].
23 ယော နဝပုရုၐ ဤၑွရာနုရူပေဏ ပုဏျေန သတျတာသဟိတေန
Others taught you that instead, you must let [God’s Spirit] change the way you think,
24 ဓာရ္မ္မိကတွေန စ သၖၐ္ဋး သ ဧဝ ပရိဓာတဝျၑ္စ၊
and that you must start being [MET] the new persons that God made you to become. That is, your [behavior] must be righteous and truly/genuinely devout.
25 အတော ယူယံ သရွွေ မိထျာကထနံ ပရိတျဇျ သမီပဝါသိဘိး သဟ သတျာလာပံ ကုရုတ ယတော ဝယံ ပရသ္ပရမ် အင်္ဂပြတျင်္ဂါ ဘဝါမး၊
Therefore, quit lying to one another. Instead, because we all belong to just one group [of believers], speak truthfully to each other.
26 အပရံ ကြောဓေ ဇာတေ ပါပံ မာ ကုရုဓွမ်, အၑာန္တေ ယုၐ္မာကံ ရောၐေသူရျျော'သ္တံ န ဂစ္ဆတု၊
If you get angry, do not sin [as a result of] getting angry. Before the end of the day [MTY], stop being angry;
27 အပရံ ၑယတာနေ သ္ထာနံ မာ ဒတ္တ၊
[by doing that], you will not allow the devil to make you do evil.
28 စောရး ပုနၑ္စဲရျျံ န ကရောတု ကိန္တု ဒီနာယ ဒါနေ သာမရ္ထျံ ယဇ္ဇာယတေ တဒရ္ထံ သွကရာဘျာံ သဒွၖတ္တျာ ပရိၑြမံ ကရောတု၊
Those who have been stealing must not steal any longer. Instead, they should work hard to earn (their living/what they need) ([by] their own efforts/[by] what they do themselves) [MTY], in order that they may have [something] to give to those who are needy.
29 အပရံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ဝဒနေဘျး ကော'ပိ ကဒါလာပေါ န နိရ္ဂစ္ဆတု, ကိန္တု ယေန ၑြောတုရုပကာရော ဇာယတေ တာဒၖၑး ပြယောဇနီယနိၐ္ဌာယဲ ဖလဒါယက အာလာပေါ ယုၐ္မာကံ ဘဝတု၊
Do not use [MTY] foul language. Instead, say only things that are useful for helping people when they need help, things that will help [spiritually] the people that you talk to.
30 အပရဉ္စ ယူယံ မုက္တိဒိနပရျျန္တမ် ဤၑွရသျ ယေန ပဝိတြေဏာတ္မနာ မုဒြယာင်္ကိတာ အဘဝတ တံ ၑောကာနွိတံ မာ ကုရုတ၊
[God has given you his] Spirit (to confirm/to assure you) that some day [God will claim all] you people [whom Christ has] redeemed [MET], [just like people confirm that something belongs to them by] putting their seal on it. So do not cause God’s Holy Spirit to be sad ([by the way you talk/by the things that you say]).
31 အပရံ ကဋုဝါကျံ ရောၐး ကောၐး ကလဟော နိန္ဒာ သရွွဝိဓဒွေၐၑ္စဲတာနိ ယုၐ္မာကံ မဓျာဒ် ဒူရီဘဝန္တု၊
Do not be resentful at all towards others. Do not become angry in any way. Never shout abusively at others. Never (slander/say bad things about) others. Never act maliciously/be mean in any way.
32 ယူယံ ပရသ္ပရံ ဟိတဲၐိဏး ကောမလာန္တးကရဏာၑ္စ ဘဝတ၊ အပရမ် ဤၑွရး ခြီၐ္ဋေန ယဒွဒ် ယုၐ္မာကံ ဒေါၐာန် က္ၐမိတဝါန် တဒွဒ် ယူယမပိ ပရသ္ပရံ က္ၐမဓွံ၊
Be kind to one another. Act mercifully toward each other. Forgive each other, just like God forgave you because of [what] Christ [has done].
