1 Wathesalonike 4
1 Hatimaye, ndugu zangu, mmejifunza kutoka kwetu namna mnavyopaswa kuishi ili kumpendeza Mungu. Na kweli mmekuwa mnaishi hivyo. Sasa tunawaombeni na kuwasihi kwa jina la Bwana Yesu mfanye vema zaidi.
Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God - and you are actually doing so - that you abound in it yet more and more.
2 Maana mnayajua yale maagizo tuliyowapeni kwa mamlaka ya Bwana Yesu.
For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.
3 Mungu anataka ninyi muwe watakatifu na mjiepushe kabisa na maisha ya zinaa.
For this is God’s will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
4 Kila mwanamume anapaswa kujua namna ya kuishi na mkewe kwa utakatifu na heshima,
That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.
5 na si kwa tamaa mbaya kama watu wa mataifa mengine wasiomjua Mungu.
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.
6 Basi, mtu yeyote asimkosee au kumpunja mwenzake kuhusu jambo hili. Tulikwisha waambieni hayo na kuwaonya kwamba Bwana atawaadhibu wanaofanya mambo hayo.
That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.
7 Mungu hakutuita tuishi maisha ya zinaa, bali tuishi katika utakatifu.
For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Kwa hiyo basi, anayedharau mafundisho hayo hamdharau mtu, bali amdharau Mungu mwenyewe anayewapeni Roho wake Mtakatifu.
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
9 Hakuna haja ya kuwaandikieni juu ya kuwapenda ndugu zenu waumini. Ninyi wenyewe mmefundishwa na Mungu namna mnavyopaswa kupendana.
It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
10 Na mmekuwa mkiwatendea hivyo ndugu zenu wote kila mahali katika Makedonia. Basi, ndugu tunawaombeni mfanye hata zaidi.
As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.
11 Muwe na nia ya kuishi maisha ya utulivu, kila mmoja ashughulikie mambo yake mwenyewe na afanye kazi kwa mikono yake mwenyewe kama tulivyowaagiza pale awali.
Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).
12 Kwa namna hiyo mtajipatia sifa nzuri kutoka kwa wale wasio Wakristo, na hamtakuwa na lazima ya kuwategemea wengine kwa mahitaji yenu.
So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.
13 Ndugu, twataka mjue ukweli kuhusu wale ambao wamekwisha fariki dunia, ili msipatwe na huzuni kama watu wengine wasio na matumaini.
But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not sorrow like other men, who have no hope.
14 Sisi tunaamini kwamba Yesu alikufa, akafufuka; na hivyo sisi tunaamini kwamba Mungu atawaleta pamoja na Yesu wale wote waliofariki wakiwa wanamwamini.
For if we really believe that Jesus died and rose again, so even so will God through Jesus bring with him those also who have fallen asleep.
15 Hili tunalowaambieni ni fundisho la Bwana; sisi tulio hai, ambao tutakuwa tumebaki, wakati Bwana atakapokuja, hakika hatutawatangulia wale waliokwisha fariki dunia.
For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 Maana patatolewa amri, sauti ya malaika mkuu, sauti ya tarumbeta ya Mungu, naye Bwana mwenyewe atashuka kutoka mbinguni. Ndipo wale waliokufa wakiwa wanamwamini Kristo watafufuliwa kwanza.
For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Kisha sisi tulio hai wakati huo tutakusanywa pamoja nao katika mawingu kumlaki Bwana hewani. Na hivyo tutakuwa daima pamoja na Bwana.
And afterwards we who are alive, who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Basi, farijianeni kwa maneno haya.
So comfort one another with these words.
