Warumi 6
1 Tuseme nini basi? Je, tuendelee kutenda dhambi ili neema ipate kuongezeka?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 La hasha! Sisi tulioifia dhambi, tutawezaje kuendelea kuishi tena katika dhambi?
God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Au hamjui ya kuwa sisi sote tuliobatizwa katika Kristo Yesu tulibatizwa katika mauti yake?
Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
4 Kwa hiyo tulizikwa pamoja naye kwa njia ya ubatizo katika mauti, ili kama vile Kristo alivyofufuliwa kutoka kwa wafu kwa utukufu wa Baba, vivyo hivyo sisi nasi pia tupate kuenenda katika upya wa uzima.
Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:
5 Kwa maana ikiwa tumeungana naye katika mauti yake, bila shaka tutaungana naye katika ufufuo wake.
for if we have been planted together in the resemblance of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection.
6 Kwa maana twajua kwamba utu wetu wa kale ulisulubiwa pamoja naye ili ule mwili wa dhambi upate kuangamizwa, nasi tusiendelee kuwa tena watumwa wa dhambi.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be inslaved to sin:
7 Kwa maana mtu yeyote aliyekufa amehesabiwa haki mbali na dhambi.
for he that is thus dead with Christ, is delivered from sin.
8 Basi ikiwa tulikufa pamoja na Kristo, tunaamini kwamba pia tutaishi pamoja naye.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:
9 Kwa maana tunajua kwamba Kristo, kwa sababu alifufuliwa kutoka kwa wafu, hawezi kufa tena; mauti haina tena mamlaka juu yake.
knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;
10 Kifo alichokufa, aliifia dhambi mara moja tu, lakini uzima alio nao anamwishia Mungu.
but as He liveth, He liveth unto God.
11 Vivyo hivyo, jihesabuni wafu katika dhambi lakini mlio hai kwa Mungu katika Kristo Yesu.
So also do ye reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Kwa hiyo, msiruhusu dhambi itawale ndani ya miili yenu, ipatikanayo na kufa, ili kuwafanya mzitii tamaa mbaya.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Wala msivitoe viungo vya miili yenu vitumike kama vyombo vya uovu vya kutenda dhambi, bali jitoeni kwa Mungu, kama watu waliotolewa kutoka mautini kuingia uzimani. Nanyi vitoeni viungo vya miili yenu kwake kama vyombo vya haki.
Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 Kwa maana dhambi haitakuwa na mamlaka juu yenu, kwa sababu hampo chini ya sheria, bali chini ya neema.
For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 Ni nini basi? Je, tutende dhambi kwa kuwa hatuko chini ya sheria bali chini ya neema? La, hasha!
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
16 Je, hamjui kwamba mnapojitoa kwa mtu yeyote kama watumwa watiifu, ninyi ni watumwa wa yule mnayemtii, aidha watumwa wa dhambi, ambayo matokeo yake ni mauti, au watumwa wa utii ambao matokeo yake ni haki?
God forbid! Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey? either of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 Lakini Mungu ashukuriwe kwa kuwa ninyi ambao kwanza mlikuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mmekuwa watii kutoka moyoni kwa mafundisho mliyopewa.
But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:
18 Nanyi, mkiisha kuwekwa huru mbali na dhambi, mmekuwa watumwa wa haki.
and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.
19 Ninasema kwa namna ya kibinadamu kwa sababu ya udhaifu wenu wa hali ya asili. Kama vile mlivyokuwa mkivitoa viungo vya miili yenu kama watumwa wa mambo machafu na uovu uliokuwa ukiongezeka zaidi, hivyo sasa vitoeni viungo vyenu kama watumwa wa haki inayowaelekeza mpate kutakaswa.
I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.
20 Mlipokuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mlikuwa hamtawaliwi na haki.
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 Lakini mlipata faida gani kwa mambo hayo ambayo sasa mnayaonea aibu? Mwisho wa mambo hayo ni mauti.
What fruit therefore had ye then in the things, which ye are now ashamed of? for the end of those things is death.
22 Lakini sasa kwa kuwa mmewekwa huru mbali na dhambi na mmekuwa watumwa wa Mungu, faida mnayopata ni utakatifu, ambao mwisho wake ni uzima wa milele. (aiōnios g166)
But now being set free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
