Wagalatia 4
1 Ninasema kwamba maadamu mrithi ni mtoto, hana tofauti na mtumwa, hata ingawa ni mmiliki wa mali yote.
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.
2 Badala yake, yuko chini ya waangalizi na wadhamini mpaka wakati uliowekwa na baba yake.
He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
3 Kadhalika pia na sisi, tulipokuwa watoto, tulishikiliwa katika utumwa wa kanuni za kwanza za ulimwengu.
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
4 Lakini wakati sahihi ulipofika, Mungu alimtuma mwanawe, mzaliwa wa mwanamke, mzaliwa chini ya sheria.
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 Alifanya hivi ili kuwakomboa wale waliokuwa chini ya sheria, ili kwamba tupokee hali ya kuwa kama wana.
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.
6 Kwa sababu ninyi ni wana, Mungu alimtuma Roho wa mwanawe ndani ya mioyo yetu, Roho aitaye, “Abba, Baba.”
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
7 Kwa sababu hii wewe si mtumwa tena bali mwana. Kama ni mwana, basi wewe pia ni mrithi kupitia Mungu.
So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
8 Hata kabla, wakati hamkumjua Mungu, mlikuwa watumwa kwa wale ambao kwa asili si miungu kabisa.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
9 Lakini sasa kwamba mnamjua Mungu, au kwamba mnajulikana na Mungu, kwa nini mnarudi tena kwenye kanuni dhaifu za kwanza na zisizo za thamani? Je mnataka kuwa watumwa tena?
But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
10 Mnashika kwa uangalifu siku maalumu, miandamo ya miezi, majira, na miaka. Ninaogopa kwa ajili yenu.
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
11 Ninaogopa kwamba kwa namna fulani nimejitaabisha bure.
I fear for you, that my efforts for you may have been in vain.
12 Ninawasihi, ndugu, muwe kama nilivyo, kwa kuwa pia nimekuwa kama mlivyo. Hamkunikosea.
I beg you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
13 Bali mnajua kwamba ilikuwa ni kwa sababu ya ugonjwa wa mwili kwamba nilihubiri injili kwenu kwa mara ya kwanza.
You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
14 Ingawa hali yangu ya mwili iliwaweka katika jaribu, hamkunidharau au kunikataa. Badala yake mlinipokea kama malaika wa Mungu, kana kwamba nilikuwa Kristo Yesu mwenyewe.
And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
15 Kwa hiyo, iko wapi sasa furaha yenu? kwa kuwa ninashuhudia kwenu kwamba, ikiwezekana, mungelin'goa macho yenu na kunipa mimi.
What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Hivyo sasa, je nimekuwa adui yenu kwa sababu ninawaambia ukweli?
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
17 Wanawatafuta kwa shauku, bali si kwa mema. Wanataka kuwatenganisha ninyi na mimi ili muwafuate.
Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
18 Ni vyema daima kuwa na shauku kwa sababu zilizo njema, na si tu wakati ninapokuwa pamoja nanyi.
Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
19 Wanangu wadogo, ninaumwa uchungu kwa ajili yenu tena mpaka Kristo aumbike ndani yenu.
My children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,
20 Ningependa kuwepo pale pamoja nanyi sasa na kugeuza sauti yangu, kwa sababu ninamashaka juu yenu.
how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
21 Niambieni, ninyi ambao mnatamani kuwa chini ya sheria, hamsikii sheria isemavyo?
Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?
22 Kwa kuwa imeandikwa kwamba Abrahamu alikuwa na wana wa kiume wawili, mmoja kwa yule mwanamke mtumwa na mwingine kwa mwanamke huru.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 Hata hivyo, yule wa mtumwa alizaliwa kwa mwili tu, bali yule wa mwanamke huru alizaliwa kwa ahadi.
His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.
24 Mambo haya yanaweza kuelezwa kwa kutumia mfano, kwa kuwa wanawake hawa wanafanana na maagano mawili. Mojawapo kutoka katika mlima Sinai. Huzaa watoto ambao ni watumwa. huyu ni Hajiri.
These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.
25 Sasa Hajiri ni mlima Sinai ulioko Arabuni. Hufananishwa na Yerusalem ya sasa, kwa kuwa ni mtumwa pamoja na watoto wake.
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
26 Bali Yerusalemu ambayo iko juu ni huru, na hii ndiyo mama yetu.
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
27 Kwa kuwa imeandikwa, “Furahi, wewe mwanamke uliye tasa, wewe usiye zaa. Paza sauti na upige kelele kwa furaha, wewe ambaye huna uzoefu wa kuzaa. kwa maana wengi ni watoto wa aliye tasa, zaidi ya wale wa yule ambaye ana mume.”
For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
28 Sasa ndugu, kama Isaka, ninyi ni watoto wa ahadi.
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
29 Kwa wakati ule ambao mtu ambaye alizaliwa kwa mujibu wa mwili alimtesa yule aliyezaliwa kwa mujibu wa Roho. Kwa sasa ni vilevile.
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
30 Maandiko husemaje? “Muondoe mwanamke mtumwa pamoja na mwanawe wa kiume. Kwa kuwa mtoto wa mwanamke mtumwa hatarithi pamoja na mtoto wa mwanamke huru.”
But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
31 Kwa hiyo, ndugu, sisi si watoto wa mwanamke mtumwa, bali ni wa mwanamke huru.
Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
