Wagalatia 2
1 Baada ya miaka kumi na minne, nilikwenda tena Yerusalemu pamoja na Barnaba; nilimchukua pia Tito pamoja nami.
Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me
2 Kwenda kwangu kulitokana na ufunuo alionipa Mungu. Katika kikao cha faragha niliwaeleza hao viongozi ujumbe wa Habari Njema niliohubiri kwa watu wa mataifa. Nilifanya hivyo kusudi kazi yangu niliyokuwa nimefanya, na ile ninayofanya sasa isije ikawa bure.
(I went up at that time in obedience to a revelation). And I laid before them the gospel which I am wont to preach among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those in authority, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.
3 Lakini, hata mwenzangu Tito, ambaye ni Mgiriki, hakulazimika kutahiriwa,
But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.
4 ingawa kulikuwa na ndugu wengine wa uongo waliotaka atahiriwe. Watu hawa walijiingiza kwa ujanja na kupeleleza uhuru wetu tulio nao katika kuungana na Kristo Yesu, ili wapate kutufanya watumwa.
Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.
5 Hatukukubaliana nao hata kidogo ili ukweli wa Habari Njema ubaki nanyi daima.
To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.
6 Lakini watu hawa wanaosemekana kuwa ni viongozi—kama kweli walikuwa hivyo au sivyo, kwangu si kitu, maana Mungu hahukumu kwa kuangalia mambo ya nje—watu hawa hawakuwa na kitu cha kuongeza katika Habari hii Njema kama niihubirivyo.
But those in authority - what they once were makes no difference to me; God is no respecter of persons - those I say who were in authority had no additions to make my message.
7 Badala yake, walitambua kwamba Mungu alikuwa amenituma kuhubiri Habari Njema kwa watu wa mataifa mengine kama vile Petro alivyokuwa ametumwa kuihubiri kwa Wayahudi.
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter has with the gospel for the circumcised
8 Maana, yule aliyemwezesha Petro kuwa mtume kwa Wayahudi, ndiye aliyeniwezesha nami pia kuwa mtume kwa watu wa mataifa mengine.
(for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),
9 Basi, Yakobo, Kefa na Yohane, ambao waonekana kuwa viongozi wakuu, walitambua kwamba Mungu alinijalia neema hiyo, wakatushika sisi mkono, yaani Barnaba na mimi, iwe ishara ya ushirikiano. Sisi ilitupasa tukafanye kazi kati ya watu wa mataifa mengine, na wao kati ya Wayahudi.
and when they recognized the grace which had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, then thought to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and to me the right hand of fellowship. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews.
10 Wakatuomba lakini kitu kimoja: tuwakumbuke maskini; jambo ambalo nimekuwa nikijitahidi kutekeleza.
They stipulated only that we should remember the poor, which very thing indeed I was quite eager to do.
11 Lakini Kefa alipofika Antiokia nilimpinga waziwazi maana alikuwa amekosea.
But when Cephas came to Antioch I resisted him to his face, because he stood self-condemned.
12 Awali, kabla ya watu kadhaa waliokuwa wametumwa na Yakobo kuwasili hapo, Petro alikuwa akila pamoja na watu wa mataifa mengine. Lakini, baada ya hao watu kufika, aliacha kabisa kula pamoja na watu wa mataifa mengine, kwa kuogopa kikundi cha waliosisitiza tohara.
For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.
13 Hata ndugu wengine Wayahudi walimuunga mkono Petro katika kitendo hiki cha unafiki, naye Barnaba akakumbwa na huo unafiki wao.
And the rest of the Jewish Christians also dissimulated with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14 Basi, nilipoona kuwa msimamo wao kuhusu ukweli wa Habari Njema haukuwa umenyooka, nikamwambia Kefa mbele ya watu wote: “Ingawa wewe ni Myahudi, unaishi kama watu wa mataifa mengine na si kama Myahudi! Unawezaje, basi kujaribu kuwalazimisha watu wa mataifa mengine kuishi kama Wayahudi?”
But when I saw that they were not walking a straight path, in the presence of the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all. "If you, although you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, why do you try to compel the Gentiles to become Jews?
15 Kweli, sisi kwa asili ni Wayahudi, na si watu wa mataifa mengine hao wenye dhambi!
"We are Jews by birth, and not ‘Gentile sinners’;
16 Lakini, tunajua kwa hakika kwamba mtu hawezi kukubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu kwa kuitii Sheria, bali tu kwa kumwamini Yesu Kristo. Na sisi pia tumemwamini Yesu Kristo ili tupate kukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya imani yetu kwa Kristo, na si kwa kuitii Sheria.
"yet because we know that no man is justified by the works of the Law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we ourselves also have put our faith in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the Law; for "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified."
17 Sasa, ikiwa katika kutafuta kukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu kwa kuungana na Kristo sisi tunaonekana kuwa wenye dhambi, je, jambo hili lina maana kwamba Kristo anasaidia utendaji wa dhambi? Hata kidogo!
But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? Far from it!
18 Lakini ikiwa ninajenga tena kile nilichokwisha bomoa, basi nahakikisha kwamba mimi ni mhalifu.
For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself a transgressor.
19 Maana, kuhusu Sheria hiyo, mimi nimekufa; Sheria yenyewe iliniua, nipate kuishi kwa ajili ya Mungu. Mimi nimeuawa pamoja na Kristo msalabani,
For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.
20 na sasa naishi, lakini si mimi tena, bali Kristo anaishi ndani yangu. Maisha haya ninayoishi sasa naishi kwa imani, imani katika Mwana wa Mungu aliyenipenda hata akayatoa maisha yake kwa ajili yangu.
I have been crucified with Christ, so it is no longer I who am living, but it is Christ who is living in me; and the life I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
21 Sipendi kuikataa neema ya Mungu. Kama mtu huweza kukubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu kwa njia ya Sheria, basi, Kristo alikufa bure!
I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.
