Warumi 6
1 Tuseme nini basi? Tuendelee katika dhambi ili neema iongezeke?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 La hasha. Sisi tuliokufa katika dhambi, tunawezaje tena kuishi katika hiyo?
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 Je hamjui ya kuwa wale waliobatizwa katika Kristo walibatizwa katika mauti yake?
Or don’t you know that all of us who were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed 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.
We were buried therefore with him through immersion into death, that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also 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 also be part 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.
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7 Yeye aliyekufa amefanywa mwenye haki kulingana na dhambi.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Lakini kama tumekufa pamoja na Kristo, tunaamini kwamba tutaishi pamoja naye pia.
But if we died with Messiah, 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.
knowing that Messiah, being 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 one time; 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.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
12 Kwa sababu hiyo usiruhusu dhambi itawale mwili wako ili kusudi uweze kuzitii tamaa zake.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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.
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 Msiiruhusu dhambi iwatawale. Kwa kuwa hamko chini ya sheria, bali chini ya neema.
For sin will not have 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? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
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.
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience 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, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18 Mmefanywa huru kutoka kwenye dhambi, na mmefanywa watumwa wa haki.
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of 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 speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20 Kwa kuwa mlipokuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mlikuwa huru mbali na haki.
For when you were servants of sin, you were free from 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.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end 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, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
