Wahebrania 12
1 Sisi tunalo kundi hili kubwa la mashahidi mbele yetu. Kwa hiyo tuondoe kila kizuizi kinachotuzuia, na dhambi ile inayotung'ang'ania. Tupige mbio kwa uvumilivu katika mashindano yaliyowekwa mbele yetu.
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
2 Tumwelekee Yesu ambaye ndiye aliyeianzisha imani yetu na ambaye ataikamilisha. Kwa ajili ya furaha iliyokuwa inamngojea, yeye alivumilia kifo msalabani, bila kujali juu ya aibu yake, na sasa anaketi upande wa kulia wa kiti cha enzi cha Mungu.
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Fikirini juu ya mambo yaliyompata Yesu, jinsi alivyostahimili upinzani mkubwa kwa watu wenye dhambi. Basi, msife moyo, wala msikate tamaa.
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4 Maana katika kupambana na dhambi, ninyi hamjapigana mpaka kiasi cha kumwaga damu yenu.
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 Je, mmesahau yale maneno ya kutia moyo ambayo Mungu anawataja ninyi kuwa wanawe? “Mwanangu, usidharau adhabu ya Bwana, wala usife moyo anapokukanya.
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, do not take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6 Maana Bwana humwadhibu kila anayempenda, humpinga kila anayekubali kuwa mwanae.”
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 Vumilieni adhabu kwani ni mafundisho; Mungu huwatendea ninyi kama wanawe. Maana ni mwana gani asiyeadhibiwa na baba yake?
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 Lakini msipoadhibiwa kama wana wengine, basi, ninyi si wanawe, bali ni wana haramu.
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9 Zaidi ya hayo sisi tunawaheshimu wazazi wetu waliotuzaa hata wanapotuadhibu. Basi, tunapaswa kumtii zaidi Baba yetu wa kiroho ili tupate kuishi.
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 Wazazi wetu hapa duniani walituadhibu kwa muda, kama wao wenyewe walivyoona kuwa vema; lakini Mungu anatuadhibu kwa ajili ya faida yetu wenyewe, tupate kuushiriki utakatifu wake.
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
11 Kuadhibiwa si jambo la kufurahisha bali la kuhuzunisha. Lakini wale waliofunzwa kuwa na nidhamu mwishowe watavuna tuzo la amani kutoka katika maisha adili!
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Basi, inueni mikono yenu inayolegea na kuimarisha magoti yenu yaliyo dhaifu.
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 Endeleeni kutembea katika njia iliyonyoka, ili kile kilicholemaa kisiumizwe, bali kiponywe.
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Jitahidini kuishi kwa amani na watu wote. Ishini maisha ya utakatifu, kwa sababu hakuna mtu atakayemwona Bwana bila ya maisha kama hayo.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15 Jitahidini sana mtu yeyote asije akapoteza neema ya Mungu. Muwe waangalifu ili mti mchungu usizuke kati yenu na kuwaua wengi kwa sumu yake.
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
16 Jihadharini ili miongoni mwenu pasiwe na mtu mwasherati au mtu asiyemcha Mungu kama Esau, aliyeuza haki yake ya mzaliwa wa kwanza kwa mlo mmoja.
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17 Ninyi mnafahamu kwamba hata alipotaka kuipata tena ile baraka iliyokuwa yake, alikataliwa, maana hakupata tena nafasi ya kutubu, ingawa aliitafuta kwa machozi.
For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 Ninyi hamkuwasili mlimani Sinai, ambao unaweza kushikika kama walivyofanya watu wa Israeli, hamkufika kwenye moto uwakao, penye giza, tufani,
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19 mvumo wa tarumbeta na sauti ya maneno. Wale waliosikia sauti hiyo waliomba wasisikie tena neno jingine,
the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
20 kwani hawakuweza kustahimili amri iliyotolewa: “Atakayegusa mlima huu, hata kama ni mnyama, atapigwa mawe.”
for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
21 Hayo yote yalionekana ya kutisha mno, hata Mose akasema, “Naogopa na kutetemeka.”
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22 Lakini ninyi mmefika katika mlima wa Sioni, kwenye mji wa Mungu aliye hai. Mmefika Yerusalemu, mji wa mbinguni, ambapo wamekusanyika malaika elfu nyingi wasiohesabika.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
23 Mmefika kwenye kusanyiko kubwa la wazaliwa wa kwanza wa Mungu, ambao majina yao yameandikwa mbinguni. Mnasimama mbele ya Mungu aliye hakimu wa wote, na mbele ya roho za watu waadilifu waliofanywa kuwa wakamilifu.
to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 Mmefika kwa Yesu ambaye ameratibisha agano jipya, na ambaye damu yake iliyomwagika inasema mambo mema zaidi kuliko ile ya Abeli.
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 Basi, jihadharini msije mkakataa kumsikiliza yeye ambaye anasema nanyi. Kama wale walikataa kumsikiliza yule aliyewaonya hapa duniani hawakuokoka, sisi tutawezaje kuokoka kama tukikataa kumsikiliza yule anayetuonya kutoka mbinguni?
See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
26 Wakati ule sauti ilitetemesha nchi, lakini sasa ameahidi: “Nitatetemesha nchi tena, lakini si nchi tu bali pia mbingu.”
whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
27 Neno hili: “tena” linatuonyesha kwamba vitu vyote vilivyoumbwa vitatetemeshwa na kutoweka ili vibaki vile visivyotetemeshwa.
This phrase, “Yet once more” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
28 Sisi basi, na tushukuru kwani tunapokea utawala usiotikisika. Tuwe na shukrani na kumwabudu Mungu kwa namna itakayompendeza, kwa ibada na hofu;
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29 maana Mungu wetu kweli ni moto mkali unaoteketeza.
for our God is a consuming fire.
