1 Wakorintho 6
1 Mmoja wenu anapokuwa na tatizo na mwenzake, anathubutu kwenda kwa mahakama ya wasio haki kuliko mbele ya waumini?
Dare any of you, having a matter against the other, go to law before the unrighteous and not before the sanctified?
2 Hamjui kuwa waumini watauhukumu ulimwengu? Na kama mtauhukumu ulimwengu, hamuwezi kuamua mambo yasiyo muhimu?
Or know ye not that the sanctified will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of very small legal disputes?
3 Hamjui kuwa tutawahukumu malaika? Kwa kiasi gani zaidi, tunaweza kuamua mambo ya maisha haya?
Know ye not that we will judge agents? Then why not mundane things?
4 Kama tunaweza kuhukumu mambo ya maisha haya, kwa nini mnathubutu kupeleka mashitaka mbele ya wasiosimama kanisani?
Indeed therefore whenever ye have mundane legal disputes, men who are disdained by the church, these ye seat to judge.
5 Nasema haya kwa aibu yenu. Hakuna mwenye busara miongoni mwenu wa kutosha kuweka mambo sawa kati ya ndugu na ndugu?
I speak shame about you. So there is not among you not even one wise man who will be able to arbitrate between his brother?
6 Lakini kama ilivyo sasa, mwamini mmoja huenda mahakamani dhidi ya muumini mwingine, na mashitaka hayo huwekwa mbele ya hakimu asiyeamini!
But brother goes to law against brother, and this before unbelievers?
7 Ukweli ni kwamba kuna matatizo katikati ya Wakristo yaliyoleta tayari usumbufu kwenu. Kwanini msiteseke kwa mabaya? Kwanini mnakubali kudanganywa?
Now therefore it is indeed altogether a defeat for you because ye have legal disputes against yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 Lakini mmetenda uovu na kudanganya wengine, na hao ni kaka na dada zenu!
Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.
9 Hamjui kwamba wasio haki hawataurithi ufalme wa Mungu? Msiamini uongo. Waasherati, waabudu sanamu, wazinzi, wafiraji, walawiti,
Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,
10 wevi, wachoyo, walevi, wanyang'anyi, watukanaji-hakuna miongoni mwao atakayeurithi ufalme wa Mungu.
nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 Na hao walikuwa baadhi yao ni ninyi. Lakini mmekwisha kutakaswa, lakini mmekwisha kuoshwa, lakini mmekwisha kutengwa kwa Mungu, lakini mmefanywa haki mbele za Mungu katika jina la Bwana Yesu Kristo na kwa Roho wa Mungu wetu.
And some of you were these things, but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
12 “Vitu vyote ni halali kwangu”, lakini si kila kitu kina faida. “Vitu vyote ni halali kwangu,” lakini sitatawaliwa na kimoja cha hivyo.
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under control by anything.
13 “Chakula ni kwa ajili ya tumbo, na tumbo ni kwa ajili ya chakula,” lakini Mungu atavitowesha vyote. Mwili haujaumbwa kwa ajili ya ukahaba, badala yake, mwili ni kwa ajili ya Bwana, na Bwana atauhudumia mwili.
The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 Mungu alimfufua Bwana na sisi pia atatufufua kwa nguvu zake.
And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up through his power.
15 Hamjui kwamba miili yenu ina muunganiko na Kristo? Mwawezaje kuvitoa viungo vya Kristo na kwenda kuviunganisha na kahaba? Haiwezekani!
Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!
16 Hamjui kwamba anayeungana na kahaba amekuwa mwili mmoja naye? Kama andiko lisemavyo, “Wawili watakuwa mwili mmoja.”
Or know ye not that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, The two, he says, will be in one flesh.
17 Lakini anayeungana na Bwana anakuwa roho moja pamoja naye.
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
18 Ikimbieni zinaa! “Kila dhambi aifanyayo mtu ni nje na mwili wake. Lakini zinaa, mtu hutenda dhambi dhidi ya mwili wake mwenyewe.
Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.
19 Hamjui kuwa miili yenu ni hekalu la Roho Mtakatifu, akaaye ndani yenu, yule ambaye mlipewa kutoka kwa Mungu? Hamjui kwamba si ninyi wenyewe?
Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,
20 Kwamba mlinunuliwa kwa thamani. Kwa hiyo mtukuzeni Mungu kwa miili yenu.
for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.
