2 Wakorintho 9
1 Kuhusiana na huduma kwa ajili ya waumini, ni bora zaidi kwangu kuwaandikia.
For indeed it is superfluous for me to write to you about the service for the sanctified.
2 Ninajua kuhusu shauku yenu, ambayo nilijivunia kwa watu wa Makedonia. Niliwaambia kwamba Akaya imekuwa tayari tangu mwaka uliopita. Hamu yenu imewatia moyo wengi wao kutenda.
For I know your willingness, which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from a year ago. And your zeal provoked the majority.
3 Sasa, nimewatuma ndugu ili kwamba majivuno yetu kuhusu ninyi yasiwe ya bure, na ili kwamba mngekuwa tayari, kama nilivyosema mngekuwa.
But I sent the brothers so that our boast about you would not be empty in this regard. So that, as I said, ye may be prepared,
4 Vinginevyo, kama mtu yeyote wa Makedonia akija pamoja nami na kuwakuta hamjawa tayari, tungeona haya — sisemi chochote kuhusu ninyi—kwa kuwa jasiri sana katika ninyi.
if somehow Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we might not say, ye) would be embarrassed in this confidence of boast.
5 Hivyo niliona ilikuwa muhimu kuwasihi ndugu kuja kwenu na kufanya mipango mapema kwa ajili ya zawadi mlizoahidi. Hii ni hivyo ili kwamba ziwe tayari kama baraka, na si kama kitu kilichoamriwa.
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go ahead to you, and arrange in advance your gift that was earlier announced, for this to be ready this way as a gift and not as an exaction.
6 Wazo ni hili: mtu apandaye haba pia atavuna haba, na yeyote apandaye kwa lengo la baraka pia atavuna baraka.
But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings.
7 Basi na kila mmoja atoe kama alivyopanga moyoni mwake. Basi naye asitoe kwa huzuni au kwa kulazimishwa. Kwa kuwa Mungu humpenda yule atoaye kwa furaha.
Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 Na Mungu anaweza kuizidishia kila baraka kwa ajili yenu, ili kwamba, kila wakati, katika mambo yote, muweze kupata yote mnayohitaji. Hii itakuwa ili kwamba mueze kuzidisha kila tendo jema.
And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,
9 Ni kama ilivyoandikwa: “Ametapanya utajiri wake na kuutoa kwa maskini. Haki yake yadumu milele.” (aiōn g165)
as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age. (aiōn g165)
10 Naye atoaye mbegu kwa mpanzi na mkate kwa ajili ya chakula, pia atatoa na kuzidisha mbegu yenu kwa ajili ya kupanda. Yeye ataongeza mavuno ya haki yenu.
And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11 Mtatajirishwa kwa kila namna ili kwamba muweze kuwa wakarimu. Hii italeta shukrani kwa Mungu kupitia sisi.
being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us.
12 Kwa kufanya huduma hii sio tu inagusa mahitaji ya waumini. Pia huzidisha katika matendo mengi ya shukrani kwa Mungu.
Because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the sanctified, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God
13 Kwa sababu ya kupimwa kwenu na kuthibitishwa kwa huduma hii, pia mtamtukuza Mungu kwa utii kwa ukiri wenu wa injili ya Kristo. Pia mtamtukuza Mungu kwa ukarimu wa karama yenu kwao na kwa kila mmoja.
through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,
14 Wanawatamani, na wanaomba kwa ajili yenu. Wanafanya hivi kwa sababu ya neema kubwa ya Mungu iliyo juu yenu.
and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you.
15 Shukrani ziwe kwa Mungu kwa karama yake isiyoelezeka!
And thanks to God for his indescribable gift.
