Warumi 3
1 Basi, Myahudi ana nini zaidi kuliko watu wengine? Au kutahiriwa kuna faida gani?
What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
2 Naam, iko faida kwa kila upande. Kwanza, Mungu aliwakabidhi Wayahudi ujumbe wake.
Much in every way. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
3 Lakini itakuwaje iwapo baadhi yao hawakuwa waaminifu? Je, jambo hilo litaondoa uaminifu wa Mungu?
Now what if some of them were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God?
4 Hata kidogo! Mungu hubaki mwaminifu daima, ingawaje kila binadamu ni mwongo. Kama Maandiko Matakatifu yasemavyo: “Kila usemapo, maneno yako ni ya haki; na katika hukumu, wewe hushinda.”
Certainly not! Rather, let God be true even if every man is a liar, just as it is written, “So that yoʋ may be justified in yoʋr words, and prevail when yoʋ are judged.”
5 Lakini, ikiwa uovu wetu unathibitisha kwamba Mungu anatenda kwa haki, tutasema nini? Je, tutasema kwamba anakosa haki akituadhibu? (Hapa naongea kibinadamu).
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God, who inflicts wrath, unrighteous? (I speak in a human way.)
6 Hata kidogo! Ingekuwa hivyo, Mungu angewezaje kuuhukumu ulimwengu?
Certainly not! Otherwise, how could God judge the world?
7 Labda utasema: “Ikiwa ukosefu wa uaminifu kwa upande wangu unamdhihirisha Mungu kuwa mwaminifu zaidi na hivyo kumpatia utukufu, basi singepaswa kuhukumiwa kuwa mwenye dhambi!”
For if through my lie the truth of God abounds to his glory, why am I still being judged as a sinner?
8 Ni sawa na kusema: tufanye maovu ili tupate mema! Ndivyo wengine walivyotukashifu kwa kutushtaki kwamba tumefundisha hivyo. Watahukumiwa wanavyostahili!
And why not say (just as some slanderously claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
9 Tuseme nini, basi? Je, sisi Wayahudi ni bora zaidi kuliko wengine? Hata kidogo! Kwa maana nimekwisha bainisha hapo mwanzoni kwamba Wayahudi na watu wa mataifa mengine wote wako chini ya utawala wa dhambi.
What then? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,
10 Kama Maandiko Matakatifu yasemavyo: “Hakuna hata mmoja aliye mwadilifu!
just as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one;
11 Hakuna mtu anayeelewa, wala anayemtafuta Mungu.
there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.
12 Wote wamepotoka wote wamekosa; hakuna atendaye mema, hakuna hata mmoja.
All have turned aside; together they have become useless; there is none who shows kindness, not even one.”
13 Makoo yao ni kama kaburi wazi, ndimi zao zimejaa udanganyifu, midomoni mwao mwatoka maneno yenye sumu kama ya nyoka.
“Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 Vinywa vyao vimejaa laana chungu.
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 Miguu yao iko mbioni kumwaga damu,
“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
16 popote waendapo husababisha maafa na mateso;
Ruin and misery are in their paths,
17 njia ya amani hawaijui.
and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 Hawajali kabisa kumcha Mungu.”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Tunajua kwamba Sheria huwahusu walio chini ya Sheria hiyo, hata hawawezi kuwa na kisingizio chochote, na ulimwengu wote uko chini ya hukumu ya Mungu.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
20 Maana hakuna binadamu yeyote anayekubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu mbele yake Mungu kwa kuishika Sheria; kazi ya Sheria ni kumwonyesha tu mtu kwamba ametenda dhambi.
For by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in his sight, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.
21 Lakini sasa, njia ya Mungu ya kuwakubali watu kuwa waadilifu imekwisha dhihirishwa, tena bila kutegemea Sheria. Sheria na manabii hushuhudia jambo hili.
But now the righteousness of God has been revealed apart from the law, attested by the Law and the Prophets,
22 Mungu huwakubali watu kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya imani yao kwa Yesu Kristo; Mungu hufanya hivyo kwa wote wanaoamini; hakuna ubaguzi wowote.
that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all and upon all who believe; for there is no distinction.
23 Watu wote wametenda dhambi na wametindikiwa utukufu wa Mungu.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 Lakini kwa zawadi ya neema ya Mungu, watu wote hukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu kwa njia ya Yesu Kristo anayewakomboa.
being freely justified by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 Mungu alimtoa Yesu kusudi, kwa damu yake, awe njia ya kuwaondolea watu dhambi zao kwa imani yao kwake. Alifanya hivyo ili apate kuonyesha kwamba yeye ni mwadilifu. Hapo zamani Mungu alikuwa mvumilivu bila kuzijali dhambi za watu;
whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith, by his blood. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins that had previously been committed.
26 lakini sasa, wakati huu, anazikabili dhambi za watu apate kuonyesha uadilifu wake. Kwa namna hiyo Mungu mwenyewe huonyesha kwamba yeye ni mwadilifu na kwamba humkubali kuwa mwadilifu mtu yeyote anayemwamini Yesu.
He did so to prove in the present time that he is righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Basi, tunaweza kujivunia nini? Hakuna! Kwa nini? Je, kwa sababu ya kutimiza Sheria? La! Bali kwa sababu tunaamini.
Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 Maana mtu hukubaliwa kuwa mwadilifu kwa imani, wala si kwa kutimiza matakwa ya Sheria.
We conclude therefore that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
29 Au je, Mungu nu Mungu wa Wayahudi tu, ama pia wa watu wa mataifa mengine? Naam, wa mataifa mengine pia.
Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
30 Mungu ni mmoja, naye atawakubali Wayahudi kuwa waadilifu kwa imani yao, na watu wa mataifa mengine pia kwa imani yao.
since God is one, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Je, tunaitumia imani kuibatilisha Sheria? Hata kidogo; bali tunaipa Sheria thamani yake kamili.
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
