မထိး 18
1 တဒါနီံ ၑိၐျာ ယီၑေား သမီပမာဂတျ ပၖၐ္ဋဝန္တး သွရ္ဂရာဇျေ ကး ၑြေၐ္ဌး?
About that time we disciples approached Jesus and said, “Who [among us will be] the most important when God [MTY/EUP] [makes you] king?”
2 တတော ယီၑုး က္ၐုဒြမေကံ ဗာလကံ သွသမီပမာနီယ တေၐာံ မဓျေ နိဓာယ ဇဂါဒ,
Jesus called a child to come, and he placed that child in our midst.
3 ယုၐ္မာနဟံ သတျံ ဗြဝီမိ, ယူယံ မနောဝိနိမယေန က္ၐုဒြဗာလဝတ် န သန္တး သွရ္ဂရာဇျံ ပြဝေၐ္ဋုံ န ၑက္နုထ၊
He said, “Think about this: If you [(pl)] do not change [the way you(pl) think] and become [as humble] as little children, you [(pl)] will surely not go to the place where God [MTY/EUP] rules.
4 ယး ကၑ္စိဒ် ဧတသျ က္ၐုဒြဗာလကသျ သမမာတ္မာနံ နမြီကရောတိ, သဧဝ သွရ္ဂရာဇယေ ၑြေၐ္ဌး၊
The people who become as humble as this child [or any child] is, will be the most important people among those over whom God rules.
5 ယး ကၑ္စိဒ် ဧတာဒၖၑံ က္ၐုဒြဗာလကမေကံ မမ နာမ္နိ ဂၖဟ္လာတိ, သ မာမေဝ ဂၖဟ္လာတိ၊
Also, when those who, [because they love] me, welcome [a] child like this one, [God considers] that they are welcoming me.”
6 ကိန္တု ယော ဇနော မယိ ကၖတဝိၑွာသာနာမေတေၐာံ က္ၐုဒြပြာဏိနာမ် ဧကသျာပိ ဝိဓ္နိံ ဇနယတိ, ကဏ္ဌဗဒ္ဓပေၐဏီကသျ တသျ သာဂရာဂါဓဇလေ မဇ္ဇနံ ၑြေယး၊
“If you cause someone who believes in me to sin, [even if it is someone who is socially unimportant like] this little child, [God will severely punish you]. If a heavy stone were fastened around your neck and you were thrown into the deep waters of the sea, [people would consider that you had been severely punished. But God will punish] you more severely [than that if you cause someone to sin]
7 ဝိဃ္နာတ် ဇဂတး သန္တာပေါ ဘဝိၐျတိ, ဝိဃ္နော'ဝၑျံ ဇနယိၐျတေ, ကိန္တု ယေန မနုဇေန ဝိဃ္နော ဇနိၐျတေ တသျဲဝ သန္တာပေါ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
It will be terrible for those [MTY] who cause others to stop believing in me. [God will punish them eternally]. It is inevitable that there will be [those who] cause others to stop believing in me. But it will be horrible for everyone who does that.
8 တသ္မာတ် တဝ ကရၑ္စရဏော ဝါ ယဒိ တွာံ ဗာဓတေ, တရှိ တံ ဆိတ္တွာ နိက္ၐိပ, ဒွိကရသျ ဒွိပဒသျ ဝါ တဝါနပ္တဝဟ္နော် နိက္ၐေပါတ်, ခဉ္ဇသျ ဝါ ဆိန္နဟသ္တသျ တဝ ဇီဝနေ ပြဝေၑော ဝရံ၊ (aiōnios g166)
So, if you [are wanting to use] one of your hands or feet to sin, [stop using that hand or foot! Even if you have to] cut it off [to avoid sinning, do it] [MET]! It is good [that you not sin and] go where you will live [with God eternally, even though while you are still here on earth] you are maimed or lame and do not have a hand or a foot. But it is not good that you continue to have your two hands and two feet [and do] [MTY] [the sinful things you want to, and as a result], you are thrown into [hell], where there is eternal fire burning. (aiōnios g166, questioned)
9 အပရံ တဝ နေတြံ ယဒိ တွာံ ဗာဓတေ, တရှိ တဒပျုတ္ပာဝျ နိက္ၐိပ, ဒွိနေတြသျ နရကာဂ္နော် နိက္ၐေပါတ် ကာဏသျ တဝ ဇီဝနေ ပြဝေၑော ဝရံ၊ (Geenna g1067)
If what you see you [makes you want] to sin, [stop looking at those things! Even if you have to] gouge out one of your eyes and throw it away [to avoid sinning, do it] [HYP]! It is good [that you not sin and] go where you will live [with God eternally, even though while you are still here on earth] you have only one eye. But it is not good that you continue to have your two eyes [and do the sinful things you want to, and as a result], you are thrown {God throws you} into hell where there is eternal fire burning.” (Geenna g1067)
10 တသ္မာဒဝဓဒ္ဓံ, ဧတေၐာံ က္ၐုဒြပြာဏိနာမ် ဧကမပိ မာ တုစ္ဆီကုရုတ,
“Make an effort that you [(pl)] do not despise [even] one of these children. I tell you [(pl)] truly that [since] the angels [live] in heaven [in the presence of] my Father, [they will report to him if you mistreat the children].
11 ယတော ယုၐ္မာနဟံ တထျံ ဗြဝီမိ, သွရ္ဂေ တေၐာံ ဒူတာ မမ သွရ္ဂသ္ထသျ ပိတုရာသျံ နိတျံ ပၑျန္တိ၊ ဧဝံ ယေ ယေ ဟာရိတာသ္တာန် ရက္ၐိတုံ မနုဇပုတြ အာဂစ္ဆတ်၊
12 ယူယမတြ ကိံ ဝိဝိံဂ္ဃွေ? ကသျစိဒ် ယဒိ ၑတံ မေၐား သန္တိ, တေၐာမေကော ဟာရျျတေ စ, တရှိ သ ဧကောနၑတံ မေၐာန် ဝိဟာယ ပရွွတံ ဂတွာ တံ ဟာရိတမေကံ ကိံ န မၖဂယတေ?
What do you [(pl)] think [you would do in the following situation]? If you had 100 sheep and one of them got lost, you would surely leave the 99 sheep [that are] on the hill and go and search for the lost one [RHQ], would you not?
13 ယဒိ စ ကဒါစိတ် တန္မေၐောဒ္ဒေၑံ လမတေ, တရှိ ယုၐ္မာနဟံ သတျံ ကထယာမိ, သော'ဝိပထဂါမိဘျ ဧကောနၑတမေၐေဘျောပိ တဒေကဟေတောရဓိကမ် အာဟ္လာဒတေ၊
If you found it, I affirm to you [(pl)] that you would rejoice very much. You would be happy that 99 sheep did not stray away, but you would rejoice even more [because you had found] the sheep that had strayed away.
14 တဒွဒ် ဧတေၐာံ က္ၐုဒြပြာဧနာမ် ဧကောပိ နၑျတီတိ ယုၐ္မာကံ သွရ္ဂသ္ထပိတု ရ္နာဘိမတမ်၊
In the same way [that shepherds do not want one of] their [sheep to stray away], so [God], your Father in heaven, does not want [even] one of these children to go to hell.” (questioned)
15 ယဒျပိ တဝ ဘြာတာ တွယိ ကိမပျပရာဓျတိ, တရှိ ဂတွာ ယုဝယောရ္ဒွယေား သ္ထိတယောသ္တသျာပရာဓံ တံ ဇ္ဉာပယ၊ တတြ သ ယဒိ တဝ ဝါကျံ ၑၖဏောတိ, တရှိ တွံ သွဘြာတရံ ပြာပ္တဝါန်,
“If a fellow believer sins [against you], go [to him], and when you two are alone, reprove him [for sinning against you]. If that person listens to you [and feels sorry that he has sinned against you], you will have restored [your friendship with] that person.
16 ကိန္တု ယဒိ န ၑၖဏောတိ, တရှိ ဒွါဘျာံ တြိဘိ ရွာ သာက္ၐီဘိး သရွွံ ဝါကျံ ယထာ နိၑ္စိတံ ဇာယတေ, တဒရ္ထမ် ဧကံ ဒွေါ် ဝါ သာက္ၐိဏော် ဂၖဟီတွာ ယာဟိ၊
If that person will not listen to you [nor feel sorry that he has sinned against you], go get one or two other people [who will listen to what you both have to say]. Have them go with you so that [what is written] {[Moses wrote]} [in the Scriptures might happen: ] ‘[When one person accuses another in some matter], it should be confirmed by [at least] two or three people {[at least] two or three people should confirm it} [before that person can be declared] guilty {[before they declare that person guilty]}.’
17 တေန သ ယဒိ တယော ရွာကျံ န မာနျတေ, တရှိ သမာဇံ တဇ္ဇ္ဉာပယ, ကိန္တု ယဒိ သမာဇသျာပိ ဝါကျံ န မာနျတေ, တရှိ သ တဝ သမီပေ ဒေဝပူဇကဣဝ စဏ္ဍာလဣဝ စ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
If the one who has sinned against you will not listen to them [or does not feel sorry that he has sinned against you], tell that to the congregation [so that they can rebuke him]. If that person will not listen to the congregation [or feel sorry that he has sinned against you, exclude him from being a member of your congregation, just like] you [would exclude] pagans, tax collectors, [and others who do not believe in God and sin greatly].
18 အဟံ ယုၐ္မာန် သတျံ ဝဒါမိ, ယုၐ္မာဘိး ပၖထိဝျာံ ယဒ် ဗဓျတေ တတ် သွရ္ဂေ ဘံတ္သျတေ; မေဒိနျာံ ယတ် ဘောစျတေ, သွရ္ဂေ'ပိ တတ် မောက္ၐျတေ၊
Keep this in mind: Whatever you decide on earth [about punishing] or [not punishing a member of your congregation] is what has also been decided by [God] in heaven {what [God] in heaven has also decided}.
19 ပုနရဟံ ယုၐ္မာန် ဝဒါမိ, မေဒိနျာံ ယုၐ္မာကံ ယဒိ ဒွါဝေကဝါကျီဘူယ ကိဉ္စိတ် ပြာရ္ထယေတေ, တရှိ မမ သွရ္ဂသ္ထပိတြာ တတ် တယေား ကၖတေ သမ္ပန္နံ ဘဝိၐျတိ၊
Also note this: If [at least] two of you [who live] here on earth agree together about something you ask [God] for [DOU], [God], my Father [who is] in heaven, will give you what you ask for.
20 ယတော ယတြ ဒွေါ် တြယော ဝါ မမ နာန္နိ မိလန္တိ, တတြဲဝါဟံ တေၐာံ မဓျေ'သ္မိ၊
[This is true], because wherever [at least] two or three of you assemble because you believe in me [MTY], I am [spiritually] present with you. I [will hear what you ask for and I will ask God to do it for you].”
21 တဒါနီံ ပိတရသ္တတ္သမီပမာဂတျ ကထိတဝါန် ဟေ ပြဘော, မမ ဘြာတာ မမ ယဒျပရာဓျတိ, တရှိ တံ ကတိကၖတွး က္ၐမိၐျေ?
Then Peter approached [Jesus] and said to him, “How many times must I forgive a fellow believer who [keeps on] sinning against me? [If he keeps asking me to forgive him, must I forgive him] as many as seven times?”
22 ကိံ သပ္တကၖတွး? ယီၑုသ္တံ ဇဂါဒ, တွာံ ကေဝလံ သပ္တကၖတွော ယာဝတ် န ဝဒါမိ, ကိန္တု သပ္တတျာ ဂုဏိတံ သပ္တကၖတွော ယာဝတ်၊
Jesus said to him, “I tell you [that the number of] times [you must forgive someone is] not just up to seven, but [you must] ([forgive him] 77 times/never stop forgiving him).
23 အပရံ နိဇဒါသဲး သဟ ဇိဂဏယိၐုး ကၑ္စိဒ် ရာဇေဝ သွရ္ဂရာဇယံ၊
[In order to illustrate] why [you should do this], I [will tell you a story in which] God [MTY/EUP], [who cares for] the people whose lives he rules over, is compared {I compare God, [who cares for] the people whose lives he rules over} to a king [and his officials]. That king told [some of his servants that he wanted] his officials to pay what they owed him.
24 အာရဗ္ဓေ တသ္မိန် ဂဏနေ သာရ္ဒ္ဓသဟသြမုဒြာပူရိတာနာံ ဒၑသဟသြပုဋကာနာမ် ဧကော'ဃမရ္ဏသ္တတ္သမက္ၐမာနာယိ၊
[So those officials were brought to the king to] settle [their accounts with him]. [One of the officials who were brought] owed the king several million dollars.
25 တသျ ပရိၑောဓနာယ ဒြဝျာဘာဝါတ် ပရိၑောဓနာရ္ထံ သ တဒီယဘာရျျာပုတြာဒိသရွွသွဉ္စ ဝိကြီယတာမိတိ တတ္ပြဘုရာဒိဒေၑ၊
But because he did not have [enough money] to pay [what he owed], the king demanded that he, his wife, his children and all he possessed be sold [to someone else, and that the king] be repaid [with] {receive} [the money that was paid for them].
26 တေန သ ဒါသသ္တသျ ပါဒယေား ပတန် ပြဏမျ ကထိတဝါန်, ဟေ ပြဘော ဘဝတာ ဃဲရျျေ ကၖတေ မယာ သရွွံ ပရိၑောဓိၐျတေ၊
Then that official, [knowing that he did not have the money to pay that huge debt], fell on his knees [in front of the king] and begged him saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you all of it, [eventually].’
27 တဒါနီံ ဒါသသျ ပြဘုး သကရုဏး သန် သကလရ္ဏံ က္ၐမိတွာ တံ တတျာဇ၊
The king, [knowing that the official could never pay all that huge debt], felt sorry for him. So he canceled his debt and released him.
28 ကိန္တု တသ္မိန် ဒါသေ ဗဟိ ရျာတေ, တသျ ၑတံ မုဒြာစတုရ္ထာံၑာန် ယော ဓာရယတိ, တံ သဟဒါသံ ဒၖၐ္ဒွါ တသျ ကဏ္ဌံ နိၐ္ပီဍျ ဂဒိတဝါန်, မမ ယတ် ပြာပျံ တတ် ပရိၑောဓယ၊
Then this official went to another one of the king’s officials who owed him a bit less than a year’s wages. He grabbed him [by the throat], started choking him, and said to him, ‘Pay back what you owe [me]!’
29 တဒါ တသျ သဟဒါသသ္တတ္ပာဒယေား ပတိတွာ ဝိနီယ ဗဘာၐေ, တွယာ ဓဲရျျေ ကၖတေ မယာ သရွွံ ပရိၑောဓိၐျတေ၊
That official fell on his knees and begged him saying, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you all of it, [eventually].’
30 တထာပိ သ တတ် နာငဂီကၖတျ ယာဝတ် သရွွမၖဏံ န ပရိၑောဓိတဝါန် တာဝတ် တံ ကာရာယာံ သ္ထာပယာမာသ၊
But this official kept refusing [to cancel that small debt that the man owed him]. Instead, he [caused that official to be] put in prison [and to stay there] until he could pay back all the money that he owed him.
31 တဒါ တသျ သဟဒါသာသ္တသျဲတာဒၖဂ် အာစရဏံ ဝိလောကျ ပြဘေား သမီပံ ဂတွာ သရွွံ ဝၖတ္တာန္တံ နိဝေဒယာမာသုး၊
When the other officials [of the king] learned that this had happened, they felt very distressed. So they went to the king and reported in detail what had happened.
32 တဒါ တသျ ပြဘုသ္တမာဟူယ ဇဂါဒ, ရေ ဒုၐ္ဋ ဒါသ, တွယာ မတ္သန္နိဓော် ပြာရ္ထိတေ မယာ တဝ သရွွမၖဏံ တျက္တံ;
Then the king summoned the official [who had owed him several million dollars]. He said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I canceled that huge debt [that you owed me] because you begged me [to do so]
33 ယထာ စာဟံ တွယိ ကရုဏာံ ကၖတဝါန်, တထဲဝ တွတ္သဟဒါသေ ကရုဏာကရဏံ ကိံ တဝ နောစိတံ?
You should have been merciful [and canceled your fellow official’s debt], just like I was merciful to you [and canceled your debt] [RHQ]!’
34 ဣတိ ကထယိတွာ တသျ ပြဘုး ကြုဒ္ဓျန် နိဇပြာပျံ ယာဝတ် သ န ပရိၑောဓိတဝါန်, တာဝတ် ပြဟာရကာနာံ ကရေၐု တံ သမရ္ပိတဝါန်၊
The king was very angry. He handed this official over to some jailers who would torture him severely until he paid all of the debt that he owed.”
35 ယဒိ ယူယံ သွာန္တးကရဏဲး သွသွသဟဇာနာမ် အပရာဓာန် န က္ၐမဓွေ, တရှိ မမ သွရ္ဂသျး ပိတာပိ ယုၐ္မာန် ပြတီတ္ထံ ကရိၐျတိ၊
[Then Jesus continued by saying], “That is what my Father in heaven will do to you if you do not [feel merciful and] sincerely forgive a fellow believer [who sins against you].”
