Wahebrania 12
1 Kwahiyo, kwa kuwa tumezungukwa na wingu kubwa la mashaidi, na tutupe kila kitu kinacho tulemea pamoja na dhambi ambayo inatuzingira kwa urahisi. Tupige mbio kwa saburi katika mashindano yaliyowekwa mbele yetu.
Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,
2 Tuyaelekeze macho yetu kwa Yesu, aliye mwanzilishi na mwenye kutimiliza imani yetu, ambaye kwa ajili ya furaha iliyowekwa mbele yake alistahmili msalaba, akiidharau aibu yake, na akakaa chini mkono wa kulia wa kiti cha enzi cha Mungu.
looking to Jesus the author and finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Maana mtafakarini yeye aliye stahimili maneno ya chuki kutoka kwa wenye dhambi, dhidi yake mwenyewe ili kwamba msije mkachoka au kuzimia mioyo yenu.
For consider him that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds.
4 Hamjataabika au kuteseka mkishindana na dhambi kiasi cha kuishiwa damu.
You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;
5 Tena mmesahau kule kutiwa moyo ambako kunawaelekeza kama watoto wa kiume: “Mwanangu, usiyachukuwe kwa wepesi marudia ya Bwana, wala usikate tamaa unapo rekebishwa na yeye.”
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.
6 Kwa kuwa Bwana humrudi yeyote ambaye anampenda, na humwadhibu kila mwana ambaye humpokea.
For, whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son that he receives.
7 Stahimili majaribu kama kurudiwa. Mungu hushughulika nanyi kama anavyoshughulika na watoto, maana ni mtoto yupi ambaye baba yake hawezi kumrudi?
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?
8 Lakini kama hakuna kurudiwa, ambako sisi sote tunashiriki, basi ninyi ni haramu na si watoto wake.
But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Zaidi ya yote, tulikuwa na baba zetu kidunia wa kuturudi, na tuliwaheshimu. Je haitupasi hata zaidi kumtii Baba wa kiroho na kuishi?
So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?
10 Kwa hakika baba zetu walituadhibu kwa miaka michache kama ilivyoonekana sawa kwao, lakini Mungu hutuadhibu kwa faida yetu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11 Hakuna adhabu inayofurahisha kwa wakati huo. Huwa na maumivu. Hata hivyo, baadaye huzaa tunda la amani ya utauwa kwa wale waliofundishwa nayo.
But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
12 Kwa hiyo inueni mikono yenu iliyolegea na kufanya magoti yenu yaliyo dhaifu kuwa yenye nguvu tena;
Wherefore, lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees,
13 nyosheni mapito ya nyayo zenu, ili kwamba yeyote aliye mlemavu hataongozwa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned aside; but rather let it be restored to health.
14 Tafuteni amani na watu wote, na pia utakatifu ambao bila huo hakuna atakayemwona Bwana.
Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord;
15 Muwe waangalifu ili kwamba asiwepo atakayetengwa mbali na neema ya Mungu, na kwamba lisije shina la uchungu litakalochipuka na kusababisha shida na kukengeusha wengi.
taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;
16 Angalieni kuwa hakuna zinaa au mtu asiye mtauwa kama vile Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo mmoja aliuza haki yake ya kuzaliwa.
lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.
17 Kwa kuwa mnajua kwamba baadaye, alipotamani kurithi baraka, alikataliwa, kwa sababu hakupata fursa ya kutubu pamoja na baba yake, hata ingawa alitafuta sana kwa machozi.
For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no means to change his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly with tears.
18 Kwa kuwa hamkuja katika mlima ambao unaweza kuguswa, Mlima unaowaka moto, giza, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and that burns with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
19 Hamkuja kwa sauti za tarumbeta, au kwa maneno yatokanayo na sauti ambayo ilisababisha kila wasikiao wasiombe neno lolote kusemwa kwao.
and to the sound of a trumpet, and to the utterance of words, the hearing of which utterance caused the people to entreat that the word might not be spoken to them again;
20 Kwa kuwa hawakuweza kuvumilia kile kilichoamuliwa: “Ikiwa hata mnyama agusaye mlima, lazima apigwe kwa mawe.”
for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned:
21 Ya kutisha zaidi aliyoyaona Musa alisema, “Nimeogopa sana kiasi cha kutetemeka”.
and so terrible was the sight, that even Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble.
22 Badala yake, mmekuja mlima Sayuni na katika mji wa Mungu aliye hai, Yerualem ya mbinguni, na kwa malaika elfu kumi wanaosherehekea.
But you have come to Mount Zion, and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels;
23 Mmekuja katika kusanyiko la wazaliwa wa kwanza wote waliosajiliwa mbinguni, kwa Mungu hakimu wa wote, na kwa roho za watakatifu ambao wamekamilishwa.
to the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
24 Mmekuja kwa Yesu mpatanishi wa agano jipya, na kwa damu iliyonyunyizwa ambayo hunena mema zaidi kuliko damu ya Habili.
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than the blood of Abel.
25 Angalia kuwa usije ukamkataa mmoja ambaye anenaye. Kwa kuwa kama hawakuepuka walipomkataa mmoja aliye waonya duniani, kwa hakika hatutaepuka ikiwa tutageuka mbali kutoka kwa yule atuonyaye kutoka mbinguni.
See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they escaped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,
26 Kwa wakati huo sauti yake ilitikisa dunia. Lakini sasa ameahidi na kunena, “Bado mara nyingine tena sitatikisa dunia pekee, bali mbingu pia.”
whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.
27 Maneno haya, “Mara moja tena,” inaonesha kutoweshwa kwa vitu vile vitetemeshwavyo, hivi ni, vitu vile ambavyo vimeumbwa, ili kwamba vile vitu visivyotetemeshwa vibakie.
And this prophecy, Yet once more, signifies the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things which can not be shaken may remain.
28 Kwa hiyo, tupokee ufalme ambao hautetemeshwi, tufurahi katika hali ya kumwabudu Mungu kwa kukubali pamoja na kunyenyekea katika kicho,
Wherefore, as we receive a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear:
29 kwa maana Mungu wetu ni moto ulao.
for our God is a consuming fire.
