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.
Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies 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 finisher of the faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has taken his seat 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 that endured such opposition of sinners against himself, lest you become weary and despondent in your minds.
4 Maana katika kupambana na dhambi, ninyi hamjapigana mpaka kiasi cha kumwaga damu yenu.
You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;
5 Je, mmesahau yale maneno ya kutia moyo ambayo Mungu anawataja ninyi kuwa wanawe? “Mwanangu, usidharau adhabu ya Bwana, wala usife moyo anapokukanya.
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not 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 chastens, and scourges every son that he receives.
7 Vumilieni adhabu kwani ni mafundisho; Mungu huwatendea ninyi kama wanawe. Maana ni mwana gani asiyeadhibiwa na baba yake?
If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?
8 Lakini msipoadhibiwa kama wana wengine, basi, ninyi si wanawe, bali ni wana haramu.
But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Zaidi ya hayo sisi tunawaheshimu wazazi wetu waliotuzaa hata wanapotuadhibu. Basi, tunapaswa kumtii zaidi Baba yetu wa kiroho ili tupate kuishi.
So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our 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, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us 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!
But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.
12 Basi, inueni mikono yenu inayolegea na kuimarisha magoti yenu yaliyo dhaifu.
Wherefore, lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees,
13 Endeleeni kutembea katika njia iliyonyoka, ili kile kilicholemaa kisiumizwe, bali kiponywe.
and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned aside; but rather let it be restored to health.
14 Jitahidini kuishi kwa amani na watu wote. Ishini maisha ya utakatifu, kwa sababu hakuna mtu atakayemwona Bwana bila ya maisha kama hayo.
Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which no man shall 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.
taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;
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 lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.
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 afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no means to change his father’s mind, though he sought it earnestly 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 may be touched, and that burns with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
19 mvumo wa tarumbeta na sauti ya maneno. Wale waliosikia sauti hiyo waliomba wasisikie tena neno jingine,
and to the sound of a trumpet, and to the utterance of words, the hearing of which utterance caused the people to entreat that the word might not be spoken to them again;
20 kwani hawakuweza kustahimili amri iliyotolewa: “Atakayegusa mlima huu, hata kama ni mnyama, atapigwa mawe.”
for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned:
21 Hayo yote yalionekana ya kutisha mno, hata Mose akasema, “Naogopa na kutetemeka.”
and so terrible was the sight, that even Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble.
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 the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads 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 general assembly and church of the first-born, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,
24 Mmefika kwa Yesu ambaye ameratibisha agano jipya, na ambaye damu yake iliyomwagika inasema mambo mema zaidi kuliko ile ya Abeli.
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than the blood 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 reject not him that speaks: for if they escaped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,
26 Wakati ule sauti ilitetemesha nchi, lakini sasa ameahidi: “Nitatetemesha nchi tena, lakini si nchi tu bali pia mbingu.”
whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.
27 Neno hili: “tena” linatuonyesha kwamba vitu vyote vilivyoumbwa vitatetemeshwa na kutoweka ili vibaki vile visivyotetemeshwa.
And this prophecy, Yet once more, signifies the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things which can not be 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;
Wherefore, as we receive a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear:
29 maana Mungu wetu kweli ni moto mkali unaoteketeza.
for our God is a consuming fire.
