Warumi 3
1 Basi kuna faida gani kuwa Myahudi? Au kuna thamani gani katika tohara?
What advantage then has the Jew, or what profit has circumcision?
2 Kuna faida kubwa kwa kila namna! Kwanza kabisa, Wayahudi wamekabidhiwa lile Neno halisi la Mungu.
Much in every respect; but chiefly that the oracles of God were intrusted to them.
3 Ingekuwaje kama wengine hawakuwa na imani? Je, kutokuamini kwao kungebatilisha uaminifu wa Mungu?
What, indeed, if some have been unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness overthrow the faithfulness of God?
4 La hasha! Mungu na aonekane mwenye haki, na kila mwanadamu kuwa mwongo, kama ilivyoandikwa: “Ili uthibitike kuwa wa kweli unaponena, na ukashinde utoapo hukumu.”
It can not be. But let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written: That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 Ikiwa uovu wetu unathibitisha haki ya Mungu waziwazi, tuseme nini basi? Je, Mungu kuileta ghadhabu yake juu yetu ni kwamba yeye si mwenye haki? (Nanena kibinadamu.)
But if our unrighteousness causes the righteousness of God to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.
6 La hasha! Kama hivyo ndivyo ilivyo, Mungu angehukumuje ulimwengu?
It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?
7 Mtu aweza kuuliza, “Kama uongo wangu unasaidia kuonyesha kweli ya Mungu na kuzidisha utukufu wake, kwa nini basi mimi nahukumiwa kuwa mwenye dhambi?”
Yet, if the truth of God has, through my lie, been greatly advanced to his glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?
8 Nasi kwa nini tusiseme, kama wengine wanavyotusingizia kuwa tunasema, “Tutende maovu ili mema yapate kuja?” Wao wanastahili hukumu yao.
Then, why not say, (as we are slanderously reported as saying, and, as some affirm, that we do say, ) Let us do evil, that good may come? Of such persons the condemnation is just.
9 Tusemeje basi? Je, sisi ni bora kuwaliko wao? La hasha! Kwa maana tumekwisha kuhakikisha kwa vyovyote kwamba Wayahudi na watu wa Mataifa wote wako chini ya nguvu ya dhambi.
What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,
10 Kama ilivyoandikwa: “Hakuna mwenye haki, hakuna hata mmoja.
as it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 Hakuna hata mmoja mwenye ufahamu, hakuna hata mmoja amtafutaye Mungu.
there is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God;
12 Wote wamepotoka, wote wameoza pamoja; hakuna atendaye mema, naam, hakuna hata mmoja.”
they have all turned out of the way; they have alike become unprofitable; there is none that does good, not even one;
13 “Makoo yao ni makaburi wazi; kwa ndimi zao wao hufanya udanganyifu.” “Sumu ya nyoka iko midomoni mwao.”
their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;
14 “Vinywa vyao vimejaa laana na uchungu.”
their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15 “Miguu yao ina haraka kumwaga damu;
their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 maangamizi na taabu viko katika njia zao,
destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 wala njia ya amani hawaijui.”
and the way of peace they have not known;
18 “Hakuna hofu ya Mungu machoni pao.”
there is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Basi tunajua ya kwamba chochote sheria inachosema, inawaambia wale walio chini ya sheria ili kila kinywa kinyamazishwe na ulimwengu wote uwajibike kwa Mungu.
Now we know that what the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.
20 Kwa hiyo hakuna binadamu hata mmoja atakayehesabiwa haki mbele za Mungu kwa matendo ya sheria, kwa maana sheria hutufanya tuitambue dhambi.
Wherefore, by works of law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight; for by law is the knowledge of sin.
21 Lakini sasa, haki itokayo kwa Mungu imedhihirishwa pasipo sheria, ambayo Sheria na Manabii wanaishuhudia.
But now, the righteousness of God without law is revealed, being attested by the law and the prophets;
22 Haki hii itokayo kwa Mungu hupatikana kwa Yesu Kristo kwa wote wamwaminio. Kwa maana hapo hakuna tofauti,
I repeat it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, which is for all, and on all that believe; for there is no difference;
23 kwa kuwa wote wametenda dhambi na kupungukiwa na utukufu wa Mungu,
for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
24 wanahesabiwa haki bure kwa neema yake kwa njia ya ukombozi ulio katika Kristo Yesu.
yet may be justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
25 Yeye ambaye Mungu alimtoa awe dhabihu ya upatanisho kwa njia ya imani katika damu yake. Alifanya hivi ili kuonyesha haki yake, kwa sababu kwa ustahimili wake aliziachilia zile dhambi zilizotangulia kufanywa.
whom God has set forth as a propitiatory sacrifice, through faith in his blood, in order to manifest his righteousness, in passing by the sins that were formerly committed through the forbearance of God;
26 Alifanya hivyo ili kuonyesha haki yake wakati huu, ili yeye awe mwenye haki na mwenye kumhesabia haki yule anayemwamini Yesu.
in order to manifest his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just, while he justifies him who believes in Jesus.
27 Basi, kujivuna kuko wapi? Kumewekwa mbali. Kwa sheria gani? Je, ni kwa ile ya matendo? La hasha, bali kwa ile sheria ya imani.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.
28 Kwa maana twaona kwamba mwanadamu huhesabiwa haki kwa njia ya imani wala si kwa matendo ya sheria.
For we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without deeds of law.
29 Je, Mungu ni Mungu wa Wayahudi peke yao? Je, yeye si Mungu wa watu wa Mataifa pia? Naam, yeye ni Mungu wa watu wa Mataifa pia.
Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Basi kwa kuwa tuna Mungu mmoja tu, atawahesabia haki wale waliotahiriwa kwa imani na wale wasiotahiriwa kwa imani iyo hiyo.
since there is one God, who will justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.
31 Je, basi ni kwamba tunaibatilisha sheria kwa imani hii? La, hasha! Badala yake tunaithibitisha sheria.
Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.
