Wafilipi 3
1 Hatimaye, ndugu zangu furahini katika Bwana. Sioni usumbufu kuwaandikia tena maneno yaleyale. Haya mambo yatawapa usalama.
For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in [the] Lord: to write the same things to you, to me [is] not irksome, and for you safe.
2 Jihadharini na mbwa. Jihadharini na watenda kazi wabaya. Jihadharini na wale wajikatao miili yao.
See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.
3 Kwa kuwa sisi nndiyo tohara. Sisi ndiyo huwa tumwabudu Mungu kwa msaada wa Roho. Tujivuniao katika Kristo Yesu, na ambao hatuna ujasiri katika mwili.
For we are the circumcision, who worship by [the] Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.
4 Hata hivyo, kama kungekuwa na mtu wa kuutumainia mwili huu, mimi ningeweza kufanya hivyo zaidi.
Though I have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, I rather:
5 Kwani nilitahiriwa siku ya nane, nilizaliwa katika kabila la Waisraeli. Ni wa kabila la Benjamini. Ni Mwebrania wa waebrani. Katika kuitimiza haki ya sheria ya Musa, nilikuwa, Farisayo.
as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;
6 Kwa juhudi zangu nililitesa Kanisa. Kwa tuitii haki ya sheria, sikuwa na lawama kisheria.
as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;
7 Lakini katika mambo yote niliyoyaona kuwa ya faida kwangu mimi, niliyahesabu kama takataka kwa sababu ya kumfahamu Kristo.
but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.
8 Kwa kweli, nayahesabu mambo yote kuwa hasara kutokana ubora wa kumjua wa Kristo Yesu Bwana wangu. Kwa ajili yake nimeaacha mambo yote, nayahesabu kama takataka ili nimpate Kristo
But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;
9 na nionekane ndani yake. Sina haki yangu binafisi kutoka katika sheria, bali ninayo haki ile ipatikanayo kwa imani katika Kristo, itokayo kwa Mungu, yenye msingi katika imani.
and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,
10 Sasa nataka kumfahamu yeye na nguvu ya ufufuo wake na ushirika wa mateso yake. Nataka kubadilishwa na Kristo katika mfano wa kifo chake,
to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
11 angalau niweze kuwa na matumaini katika ufufuo wa wafu.
if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.
12 Siyo kweli kwamba tayari nimeishayapata mambo hayo, au kwamba nimekuwa mkamilifu katika hayo. Bali najitahidi ili niweze kupata kile kupata kile nilichopatikana na Kristo Yesu.
Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].
13 Ndugu zangu, sidhani kwamba nimekwisha kupata mambo haya. Bali nafanya jambo moja: nasahau ya nyuma nayatazamia ya mbele.
Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing — forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,
14 Najitahidi kufikia lengo kusudi ili nipate tuzo ya juu ya wito wa Mungu katika Kristo Yesu.
I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Sote tulio ukulia wokovu, tunapaswa kuwaza namna hii. Na ikiwa mwingine atafikiri kwa namna iliyotofauti kuhusu jambo lo lote, Mungu pia atalifunuao hiilo kwenu.
As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this also God shall reveal to you.
16 Hata hivyo, hatua ifikia na tuenende katika mtindo huo.
But whereto we have attained, [let us] walk in the same steps.
17 Ndugu zangu, niigeni mimi. Waangalieni kwa makini wale wanaoenenda kwa mfano ulio wa jinsi yetu.
Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;
18 Wengi wanaoishi niwale ambao mara nyingi nimewaambieni, na sasa nawaambia kwa machozi -wengi wanaishi kama maadui wa msalaba wa Kristo.
(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they [are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Mwisho wao ni uharibifu. Kwa kuwa Mungu wao ni tumbo, na kiburi chao kiko katika aibu yao. Wanafikiria mambo ya kidunia.
whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly, and [their] glory in their shame, who mind earthly things: )
20 Bali uraia wetu uko mbinguni, ambako tunamtarajia mwokozi wetu Yesu Kristo.
for our commonwealth has its existence in [the] heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ [as] Saviour,
21 Atabadilisha miili yetu dhaifu kuwa kama mwili wake wa utukufu; kwa uweza ule ule unaomwezesha kuvidhibiti vitu vyote.
who shall transform our body of humiliation into conformity to his body of glory, according to the working of [the] power which he has even to subdue all things to himself.
