1 Yohana 5
1 Yeyote anayeamini kuwa Yesu ni Kristo amezaliwa na Mungu. Na yeyote ampendaye yeye ambaye ametoka kwa Baba pia huwapenda watoto wake.
Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
2 Kwa hili twajua kwamba twawapenda watoto wa Mungu — tunapompenda Mungu na kutekeleza amri zake.
in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;
3 Hivi ndivyo tunavyompenda Mungu kwamba twazishika amri zake. Na amri zake ni nyepesi.
for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
4 Kwa kuwa kila aliyezaliwa na Mungu huushinda ulimwengu. Na huu ndio ushindi wa kuushinda ulimwengu, imani yetu.
because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world — our faith;
5 Ni nani aliyeushinda ulimwengu? Ni yule aaminiye kwamba Yesu ni Mwana wa Mungu.
who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 Huyu ndiye aliyekuja kwa maji na damu- Yesu Kristo. Hakuja tu kwa maji bali kwa maji na damu.
This one is he who did come through water and blood — Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,
7 Kwa kuwa kuna watatu washuhudiao:
because three are who are testifying [in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these — the three — are one;
8 Roho, maji na damu. Hawa watatu hukubaliana. (Zingatia: Maneno haya “Baba, Neno, na Roho Mtakatifu” hayaonekani katika nakala bora za kale).
and three are who are testifying in the earth], the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.
9 Kama tunaupokea ushuhuda wa wanadamu ushuhuda wa Mungu ni mkuu kuliko huo. Kwa kuwa ushuhuda wa Mungu ni huu- kwamba anao ushuhuda kuhusiana na Mwanawe.
If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.
10 Yeye amwaminiye Mwana wa Mungu ana ushuhuda ndani yake mwenyewe. Na yeyote asiye mwamini Mungu amemfanya kuwa mwongo, kwa kuwa hakuuamini ushuhuda ambao Mungu ameuleta kuhusu Mwanawe.
He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;
11 Na ushuhuda ndio huu — kwamba Mungu alitupa uzima wa milele, na uzima huu umo ndani ya Mwanawe. (aiōnios g166)
and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this — the life — is in His Son; (aiōnios g166)
12 Aliye naye Mwana ana uzima. Asiyekuwa naye Mwana wa Mungu hana uzima.
he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God — the life he hath not.
13 Nimewaandikia haya mweze kujua kwamba mnao uzima wa milele — ninyi mnaoamini katika jina la Mwana wa Mungu. (aiōnios g166)
These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God. (aiōnios g166)
14 Na huu ndio ujasiri tulionao mbele zake, kwamba kama tukiomba kitu chochote sawa sawa na mapenzi yake, hutusikia.
And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,
15 Na kama tunajua kwamba hutusikia — chochote tumwombacho tunajua kwamba tunacho hicho tulichomwomba.
and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.
16 Kama mtu amwonaye ndugu yake anatenda dhambi isiyopelekea kifo, yampasa kuomba na Mungu atampa uzima. Ninasema kwa wale ambao dhambi yao ni ile isiyopelekea kifo — Kuna dhambi ipelekeayo kifo — sisemi kwamba anapaswa kuomba kwa ajilli ya dhambi hiyo.
If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;
17 Uasi wote ni dhambi — lakini kuna dhambi isiyopelekea kifo.
all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.
18 Tunajua ya kuwa aliyezaliwa na Mungu hatendi dhambi. Bali aliyezaliwa na Mungu hutunzwa naye salama daima, na yule mwovu hawezi kumdhuru.
We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
19 Tunajua kuwa sisi ni wa Mungu na tunajua kwamba ulimwengu wote uko chini ya utawala wa yule mwovu.
we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
20 Lakini twajua kwamba Mwana wa Mungu amekuja na ametupatia ujuzi, kwamba tunamjua yeye aliye kweli na kwamba tumo ndani yake yeye aliye kweli, hata katika Mwanawe Yesu Kristo. Ni Mungu wa kweli na uzima wa milele. (aiōnios g166)
and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during! (aiōnios g166)
21 Watoto wapenzi, jiepusheni na sanamu.
Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.
