ဂါလာတိနး 4
1 အဟံ ဝဒါမိ သမ္ပဒဓိကာရီ ယာဝဒ် ဗာလသ္တိၐ္ဌတိ တာဝတ် သရွွသွသျာဓိပတိး သန္နပိ သ ဒါသာတ် ကေနာပိ ဝိၐယေဏ န ဝိၑိၐျတေ
My point is this – as long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.
2 ကိန္တု ပိတြာ နိရူပိတံ သမယံ ယာဝတ် ပါလကာနာံ ဓနာဓျက္ၐာဏာဉ္စ နိဃ္နသ္တိၐ္ဌတိ၊
He is subject to the control of guardians and stewards, during the period for which his father has power to appoint them.
3 တဒွဒ် ဝယမပိ ဗာလျကာလေ ဒါသာ ဣဝ သံသာရသျာက္ၐရမာလာယာ အဓီနာ အာသ္မဟေ၊
And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;
4 အနန္တရံ သမယေ သမ္ပူရ္ဏတာံ ဂတဝတိ ဝျဝသ္ထာဓီနာနာံ မောစနာရ္ထမ္
but, when the full time came, God sent his Son – born a woman’s child, born subject to Law –
5 အသ္မာကံ ပုတြတွပြာပ္တျရ္ထဉ္စေၑွရး သ္တြိယာ ဇာတံ ဝျဝသ္ထာယာ အဓိနီဘူတဉ္စ သွပုတြံ ပြေၐိတဝါန်၊
to ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons.
6 ယူယံ သန္တာနာ အဘဝတ တတ္ကာရဏာဒ် ဤၑွရး သွပုတြသျာတ္မာနာံ ယုၐ္မာကမ် အန္တးကရဏာနိ ပြဟိတဝါန် သ စာတ္မာ ပိတး ပိတရိတျာဟွာနံ ကာရယတိ၊
And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry – “Abba, our Father.”
7 အတ ဣဒါနီံ ယူယံ န ဒါသား ကိန္တုး သန္တာနာ ဧဝ တသ္မာတ် သန္တာနတွာစ္စ ခြီၐ္ဋေနေၑွရီယသမ္ပဒဓိကာရိဏော'ပျာဓွေ၊
You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God’s appointment.
8 အပရဉ္စ ပူရွွံ ယူယမ် ဤၑွရံ န ဇ္ဉာတွာ ယေ သွဘာဝတော'နီၑွရာသ္တေၐာံ ဒါသတွေ'တိၐ္ဌတ၊
Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to “gods” which were no gods.
9 ဣဒါနီမ် ဤၑွရံ ဇ္ဉာတွာ ယဒိ ဝေၑွရေဏ ဇ္ဉာတာ ယူယံ ကထံ ပုနသ္တာနိ ဝိဖလာနိ တုစ္ဆာနိ စာက္ၐရာဏိ ပြတိ ပရာဝရ္တ္တိတုံ ၑက္နုထ? ယူယံ ကိံ ပုနသ္တေၐာံ ဒါသာ ဘဝိတုမိစ္ဆထ?
But now that you have found God – or, rather, have been found by him – how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?
10 ယူယံ ဒိဝသာန် မာသာန် တိထီန် သံဝတ္သရာံၑ္စ သမ္မနျဓွေ၊
You are scrupulous in keeping days and months and seasons and years!
11 ယုၐ္မဒရ္ထံ မယာ ယး ပရိၑြမော'ကာရိ သ ဝိဖလော ဇာတ ဣတိ ယုၐ္မာနဓျဟံ ဗိဘေမိ၊
You make me fear that the labour which I have spent on you may have been wasted.
12 ဟေ ဘြာတရး, အဟံ ယာဒၖၑော'သ္မိ ယူယမပိ တာဒၖၑာ ဘဝတေတိ ပြာရ္ထယေ ယတော'ဟမပိ ယုၐ္မတ္တုလျော'ဘဝံ ယုၐ္မာဘိ ရ္မမ ကိမပိ နာပရာဒ္ဓံ၊
I entreat you, friends, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong.
13 ပူရွွမဟံ ကလေဝရသျ ဒေါ်ရ္ဗ္ဗလျေန ယုၐ္မာန် သုသံဝါဒမ် အဇ္ဉာပယမိတိ ယူယံ ဇာနီထ၊
You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the good news.
14 တဒါနီံ မမ ပရီက္ၐကံ ၑာရီရက္လေၑံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ ယူယံ မာမ် အဝဇ္ဉာယ ၒတီယိတဝန္တသ္တန္နဟိ ကိန္တွီၑွရသျ ဒူတမိဝ သာက္ၐာတ် ခြီၐ္ဋ ယီၑုမိဝ ဝါ မာံ ဂၖဟီတဝန္တး၊
And as for what must have tried you in my condition, it did not inspire you with scorn or disgust, but you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God – or Christ Jesus himself!
15 အတသ္တဒါနီံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ယာ ဓနျတာဘဝတ် သာ က္က ဂတာ? တဒါနီံ ယူယံ ယဒိ သွေၐာံ နယနာနျုတ္ပာဋျ မဟျံ ဒါတုမ် အၑက္ၐျတ တရှိ တဒပျကရိၐျတေတိ ပြမာဏမ် အဟံ ဒဒါမိ၊
What has become then, of your blessings? For I can bear witness that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me!
16 သာမ္ပြတမဟံ သတျဝါဒိတွာတ် ကိံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ရိပု ရ္ဇာတော'သ္မိ?
Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 တေ ယုၐ္မတ္ကၖတေ သ္ပရ္ဒ္ဓန္တေ ကိန္တု သာ သ္ပရ္ဒ္ဓါ ကုတ္သိတာ ယတော ယူယံ တာနဓိ ယတ် သ္ပရ္ဒ္ဓဓွံ တဒရ္ထံ တေ ယုၐ္မာန် ပၖထက် ကရ္တ္တုမ် ဣစ္ဆန္တိ၊
Certain people are seeking your favour, but with no honourable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favour.
18 ကေဝလံ ယုၐ္မတ္သမီပေ မမောပသ္ထိတိသမယေ တန္နဟိ, ကိန္တု သရွွဒဲဝ ဘဒြမဓိ သ္ပရ္ဒ္ဓနံ ဘဒြံ၊
It is always honourable to have your favour sought in an honourable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children –
19 ဟေ မမ ဗာလကား, ယုၐ္မဒန္တ ရျာဝတ် ခြီၐ္ဋော မူရ္တိမာန် န ဘဝတိ တာဝဒ် ယုၐ္မတ္ကာရဏာတ် ပုနး ပြသဝဝေဒနေဝ မမ ဝေဒနာ ဇာယတေ၊
you for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, until a likeness to Christ will have been formed in you.
20 အဟမိဒါနီံ ယုၐ္မာကံ သန္နိဓိံ ဂတွာ သွရာန္တရေဏ ယုၐ္မာန် သမ္ဘာၐိတုံ ကာမယေ ယတော ယုၐ္မာနဓိ ဝျာကုလော'သ္မိ၊
But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you.
21 ဟေ ဝျဝသ္ထာဓီနတာကာင်္က္ၐိဏး ယူယံ ကိံ ဝျဝသ္ထာယာ ဝစနံ န ဂၖဟ္လီထ?
Tell me, you who want to be still subject to Law – Why don’t you listen to the Law?
22 တန္မာံ ဝဒတ၊ လိခိတမာသ္တေ, ဣဗြာဟီမော ဒွေါ် ပုတြာဝါသာတေ တယောရေကော ဒါသျာံ ဒွိတီယၑ္စ ပတ္နျာံ ဇာတး၊
Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman.
23 တယော ရျော ဒါသျာံ ဇာတး သ ၑာရီရိကနိယမေန ဇဇ္ဉေ ယၑ္စ ပတ္နျာံ ဇာတး သ ပြတိဇ္ဉယာ ဇဇ္ဉေ၊
But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise.
24 ဣဒမာချာနံ ဒၖၐ္ဋန္တသွရူပံ၊ တေ ဒွေ ယောၐိတာဝီၑွရီယသန္ဓီ တယောရေကာ သီနယပရွွတာဒ် ဥတ္ပန္နာ ဒါသဇနယိတြီ စ သာ တု ဟာဇိရာ၊
This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two covenants. One covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar.
25 ယသ္မာဒ် ဟာဇိရာၑဗ္ဒေနာရဝဒေၑသ္ထသီနယပရွွတော ဗောဓျတေ, သာ စ ဝရ္တ္တမာနာယာ ယိရူၑာလမ္ပုရျျား သဒၖၑီ၊ ယတး သွဗာလဲး သဟိတာ သာ ဒါသတွ အာသ္တေ၊
Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, and represents the Jerusalem of today, for she and her children are in slavery.
26 ကိန္တု သွရ္ဂီယာ ယိရူၑာလမ္ပုရီ ပတ္နီ သရွွေၐာမ် အသ္မာကံ မာတာ စာသ္တေ၊
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she it is who is our mother.
27 ယာဒၖၑံ လိခိတမ် အာသ္တေ, "ဝန္ဓျေ သန္တာနဟီနေ တွံ သွရံ ဇယဇယံ ကုရု၊ အပြသူတေ တွယောလ္လာသော ဇယာၑဗ္ဒၑ္စ ဂီယတာံ၊ ယတ ဧဝ သနာထာယာ ယောၐိတး သန္တတေ ရ္ဂဏာတ်၊ အနာထာ ယာ ဘဝေန္နာရီ တဒပတျာနိ ဘူရိၑး။ "
For scripture says – “Rejoice, you barren one, who have never given birth, break into shouts, you who are never in labour, for many are the children of her who is desolate – yes, more than of her who has a husband.”
28 ဟေ ဘြာတၖဂဏ, ဣမှာက် ဣဝ ဝယံ ပြတိဇ္ဉယာ ဇာတား သန္တာနား၊
As for ourselves, friends, we, like Isaac, are children born in fulfilment of a promise.
29 ကိန္တု တဒါနီံ ၑာရီရိကနိယမေန ဇာတး ပုတြော ယဒွဒ် အာတ္မိကနိယမေန ဇာတံ ပုတြမ် ဥပါဒြဝတ် တထာဓုနာပိ၊
Yet at that time the child born in the course of nature persecuted the child born by the power of the Spirit; and it is the same now.
30 ကိန္တု ၑာသ္တြေ ကိံ လိခိတံ? "တွမ် ဣမာံ ဒါသီံ တသျား ပုတြဉ္စာပသာရယ ယတ ဧၐ ဒါသီပုတြး ပတ္နီပုတြေဏ သမံ နောတ္တရာဓိကာရီ ဘဝိယျတီတိ၊ "
But what does the passage of scripture say? “Send away the slave-woman and her son; for the slave’s son will not be coheir with the son of the free woman.”
31 အတဧဝ ဟေ ဘြာတရး, ဝယံ ဒါသျား သန္တာနာ န ဘူတွာ ပါတ္နျား သန္တာနာ ဘဝါမး၊
And so, friends, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.
