Warumi 6
1 Tuseme nini basi? Tuendelee katika dhambi ili neema iongezeke?
What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may abound?
2 La hasha. Sisi tuliokufa katika dhambi, tunawezaje tena kuishi katika hiyo?
Certainly not! How can we who have died to sin still live in it?
3 Je hamjui ya kuwa wale waliobatizwa katika Kristo walibatizwa katika mauti yake?
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?
4 Tulikuwa tumezikwa pamoja naye kupitia ubatizo katika kifo. Hii ilifanyika ili kwamba kama vile Kristo alivyoinuliwa kutoka mauti kupitia utukufu wa Baba, ili kwamba nasi tuweze kutembea katika upya wa maisha.
Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 Maana ikiwa tumeunganishwa pamoja naye katika mfano wa kifo chake, pia tutaunganishwa katika ufufuo wake.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 Sisi tunajua hivi, utu wetu wa zamani ulisulubiwa pamoja naye, ili kwamba mwili wa dhambi uharibiwe. Hii ilitokea ili kwamba tusiendelee kuwa watumwa wa dhambi.
For we know that our old self has been crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 Yeye aliyekufa amefanywa mwenye haki kulingana na dhambi.
For he who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Lakini kama tumekufa pamoja na Kristo, tunaamini kwamba tutaishi pamoja naye pia.
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 Tunajua kwamba Kristo amefufuliwa kutoka katika wafu, na kwamba si mfu tena. Kifo hakimtawali tena.
For we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 Maana kwa habari ya kifo alichokufa kwa dhambi, alikufa mara moja kwa ajili ya wote. Hata hivyo, maisha anayoishi, anaishi kwa ajili ya Mungu.
For the death that he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11 Kwa njia iyo hiyo, nanyi pia mnapaswa kujihesabu kuwa wafu katika dhambi, bali hai kwa Mungu katika Kristo Yesu.
So you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Kwa sababu hiyo usiruhusu dhambi itawale mwili wako ili kusudi uweze kuzitii tamaa zake.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies so that you obey it in the body's sinful desires.
13 Usitoe sehemu za mwili wako katika dhambi kama vyombo visivyo na haki, bali jitoeni wenyewe kwa Mungu, kama walio hai kutoka mautini. Na zitoeni sehemu za miili yenu kama vyombo vya haki kwa Mungu.
And do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 Msiiruhusu dhambi iwatawale. Kwa kuwa hamko chini ya sheria, bali chini ya neema.
For sin will have no dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 Nini basi? Tutende dhambi kwa kuwa hatupo chini ya sheria, bali chini ya neema? La hasha.
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16 Hamjui ya kuwa kwake yeye ambaye mnajitoa wenyewe kama watumishi ndiye ambaye ninyi mnakuwa watumishi wake, yeye mnayepaswa kumtii? Hii ni kweli hata kama ninyi ni watumwa katika dhambi ambayo inapelekea mauti, au watumwa wa utii unaopelekea haki.
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17 Lakini ashukuriwe Mungu! Kwa kuwa mlikuwa watumwa wa dhambi, lakini mmetii kutoka moyoni ile namna ya fundisho mliopewa.
But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,
18 Mmefanywa huru kutoka kwenye dhambi, na mmefanywa watumwa wa haki.
and having been set free from sin, you have become slaves to righteousness.
19 Ninazungumza kama mtu kwa sababu ya madhaifu ya miili yenu. Kwa maana kama vile mlivyotoa viungo vya miili yenu kuwa watumwa kwa uchafu na uovu, kwa jinsi iyo hiyo, sasa toeni viungo vya miili yenu kuwa watumwa wa haki kwa utakaso.
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 Kwa kuwa mlipokuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mlikuwa huru mbali na haki.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21 Kwa wakati huo, mlikuwa na tunda lipi kwa mambo ambayo kwa sasa mnaona aibu kwayo? Kwa kuwa matokeo ya mambo hayo ni kifo.
So what fruit did you have at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things is death.
22 Lakini kwa kuwa sasa mmefanywa huru mbali na dhambi na mmefanyika watumwa kwa Mungu, mna tunda kwa ajili ya utakaso. Tokeo ni uzima wa milele. (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, you have fruit that leads to sanctification, and the end result is eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
