Galatifo 6
1 Anuanom, sɛ obi kɔtɔ bɔne mu a, ɛsɛ sɛ mo a moyɛ honhom mufo no fa odwo kwan so teɛ no. Nanso monhwɛ yiye na mo nso wɔansɔ mo anhwɛ.
My fellow believers, if [you] discover that a person [among your congregation] is sinning, [those of] you whom [God’s] Spirit [is directing and empowering] should gently correct that person. [Furthermore, each of] you [who corrects another person should] be very cautious in order that you might not [sin like that when] you are tempted {[when something] tempts you}.
2 Monsoa mo ho mo ho nnesoa. Sɛ moyɛ saa a, na mudi Kristo mmara no so.
[When there are ones who have] problems, you should help each other. By doing that, you will complete what Christ requires.
3 Sɛ obi dwene sɛ ɔyɛ otitiriw nanso ɔnsɛ hwee a, na ɔdaadaa ne ho.
Keep in mind that those who [refuse to help others because they think that they are more important than other people, although they are] not really more important, are deceiving themselves.
4 Yɛ wʼadwuma yiye na woanya biribi agyina so de ahoahoa wo ho. Na mfa wo ho ntoto afoforo ho;
Instead, each [of you] should [constantly] test/judge [and decide if you can approve what you yourself are doing and thinking]. Then you can boast because of what you yourself [are doing and thinking], and not because what you are doing is superior to what other persons [are doing].
5 efisɛ ɛsɛ sɛ obiara soa nʼadesoa.
Keep in mind that you must each perform your own [individual] tasks.
6 Wone nea ɔkyerɛkyerɛ wo Onyankopɔn asɛm no nkyɛ ade pa biara a wowɔ.
[You] who are being taught {whom others are teaching} [God’s truth] should share your various [material] things [EUP] with your teachers.
7 Monnnaadaa mo ho; obiara rentumi nsi Onyankopɔn atwetwe. Nea onipa dua no, ɛno ara na otwa.
You should not deceive yourselves. [Remember that] God is never outwitted {no one ever fools God}. [Just like] a farmer will reap exactly the kind [of crop that] he plants [MET], [God will reward people according to what they have done] [MET].
8 Sɛ mudi mo akɔnnɔ bɔne akyi a mobɛkɔ ɔsɛe mu, nanso sɛ monantew Honhom mu a, mubenya daa nkwa. (aiōnios g166)
[God] will punish eternally those who do what their self-directed natures urge them to do. But those who please [God’s] Spirit will live forever [with God] because of what [God’s] Spirit does for them. (aiōnios g166)
9 Ne saa nti, mommma yɛmmmrɛ papayɛ ho, efisɛ bere a ɛsɛ mu no, sɛ yɛampa abaw a yebetwa nnɔbae no.
But we should not (tire of/become discouraged while) doing what pleases God, because [eventually], at the time [that God] has determined, we will receive a reward [MET], if we do not stop [doing the good things that we have been doing].
10 Enti mmere dodow a yɛwɔ akwannya no, ɛsɛ sɛ yɛyɛ obiara papa, ne titiriw no, wɔn a yɛne wɔn bɔ gyidifo abusua.
So, whenever we have opportunities, we should do [what is] good to all people. But especially we should do what is good to all our fellow believers.
11 Monhwɛ nkyerɛw akɛse a mede mʼankasa me nsa akyerɛw abrɛ mo.
I am now writing this last part of this letter to you in my own handwriting. Notice the large letters with which I am now writing. I am doing this in order that I might emphasize this:
12 Wɔn a wɔpɛ sɛ wɔhoahoa wɔn ho no ara na wɔpɛ sɛ wɔhyɛ mo ma mutwitwa twetia. Nea enti a wɔyɛ eyi ne sɛ, wɔmpɛ sɛ Kristo asennua no nti wɔtaa wɔn.
Some Jewish believers are trying to force you to perform certain rituals so that other Jews will think highly of them. They are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone must circumcise you}. They are doing that only in order that other Jews would no longer (persecute them/cause them to suffer) for proclaiming that God will save us because of our trusting in what Christ accomplished when he died on the cross [MTY, MET].
13 Wɔn a wotwa twetia no mpo nni mmara no so. Pɛ ara na wɔpɛ sɛ wotwa mo twetia sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a wobetumi de mo ahoahoa wɔn ho sɛ wɔn akyidifo.
The reason that I say that is that the ones who are insisting that you be circumcised {that someone circumcise you} do not themselves fully obey the laws that God gave to Moses. Instead, they desire that you let someone circumcise you in order that they might boast to those Jews who would (persecute them/cause them to suffer) that you did that because they insisted [MTY] that you do it.
14 Nanso me de, Awurade Yesu Kristo asennua no nko ara na mede bɛhoahoa me ho; nʼasennua no nti, nea mede hoahoa me ho wɔ wiase no awu, na saa ara na nea wiase de hoahoa ne ho wɔ me mu no nso awu.
I myself, however, strongly desire that I never boast about anything like that. The only thing I will boast about is what our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished by dying on the cross [MTY]. Because of what Christ did on the cross, I no longer am interested in the things that those who do not trust Christ [MTY] think are important, and those people are no longer interested in the things that I [MET] think are important.
15 Sɛ obi atwa twetia anaa ontwaa twetia no nka hwee. Nea ɛho hia ne abɔde foforo.
I will boast about Christ dying on the cross because God is concerned neither that people are circumcised nor that people are not circumcised. Instead, he is concerned only that people conduct their lives in a completely new way.
16 Onyankopɔn adɔe ne nʼasomdwoe nka wɔn a wodi saa nkyerɛkyerɛ yi so nyinaa; wɔne Onyankopɔn mu nnipa foforo.
I pray that God will give inner peace and act kindly towards all who will act according to this new way of life. It is all those who live according to this new way of life who are now truly God’s people [MET], as the Israeli people were God’s people previously.
17 Efi saa bere yi rekɔ, obiara nhaw mʼadwene bio, efisɛ mewɔ ɔhonam ani twã a ɛkyerɛ sɛ meyɛ Yesu de.
Finally, I say that people have persecuted me/caused me to suffer for declaring the truth about Jesus, and as a result I have scars on my body. Your new teachers do not have scars like mine! So do not trouble/bother me about these matters again!
18 Me nuanom, Awurade Yesu Kristo adom no nka mo nyinaa. Amen.
My fellow believers, I pray that our Lord Jesus Christ will kindly accomplish what he desires within you. (Amen!/May it be so!)
