Hebrifo 12
1 Yɛn de, yɛwɔ nnansefo bebree a wɔatwa yɛn ho ahyia. Momma yɛntwe yɛn ho mfi akwanside nyinaa ne bɔne a akyekyere yɛn denneennen no nyinaa ho na yɛnyere yɛn ho wɔ mmirikakansi a ɛda yɛn anim no mu.
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 Momma yɛmfa yɛn ani nto Yesu a yɛn gyidi mfiase ne nʼawie gyina ne so no so. Asennua no nti wampa abaw. Esiane anigye a na ɛretwɛn no no nti, animguasewu a owui wɔ asennua so no anhaw no. Enti mprempren ɔte Onyankopɔn ahengua no nifa so.
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 Dwene ɔhaw a ɔfaa mu no ho sɛ nnipa nnebɔneyɛfo tan a wɔtan no nso, otumi gyinaa ano no. Ɛno nti mommpa abaw.
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
4 Na mo ne bɔne ko mu no, monko nkoduu sɛ mubehwie mogya agu.
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 Mo werɛ afi nkuranhyɛsɛm a Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ mo, sɛnea agya kasa kyerɛ ne mma no? Se, “Me ba, sɛ Awurade teɛ wo a, tie no yiye, na sɛ ɔka wʼanim a, mpa abaw.
You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
6 Efisɛ obiara a Awurade pɛ nʼasɛm no, ɔtwe nʼaso sɛnea agya teɛ ɔba a ɔdɔ no no.”
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 Amanehunu biara a ɛbɛto mo no, munnhinhim na momfa no sɛ Agya no nteɛso, efisɛ mo amanehunu no kyerɛ nteɛso a Onyankopɔn wɔ ma ne mma. Na dɛn nti na agya ntwe ne mma aso?
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?
8 Sɛ wanteɛ mo sɛ ne mma no bi a, na ɛkyerɛ sɛ monnyɛ ne mma kann.
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.
9 Sɛ yɛn agyanom a wɔwɔ asase so twee yɛn aso ma yebuu wɔn a, mpɛn ahe na ɛnsɛ sɛ yɛbrɛ yɛn ho ase ma honhom mu Agya no na yetumi tena ase?
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 Yɛn agyanom a wɔwɔ asase so ha twee yɛn aso sɛnea wɔpɛ wɔ bere tiaa bi. Nanso yɛn yiyedi nti, Onyankopɔn yɛɛ saa sɛnea yɛn ho bɛtew.
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 Sɛ wɔtwe yɛn aso a ɛma yɛn werɛ how wɔ saa bere no mu na yɛn ani nnye. Na akyiri no a wɔn a wɔfa saa asotwe no mu no nya wɔn ho ntease no, wonya asomdwoe na wɔtena ase trenee mu.
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 Monhyehyɛ nsa ne nkotodwe a emu agugow no mu den.
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 Munsiesie akwan na momfa so, na mpakye anyɛ mmubuafo, na mmom, wɔasa wɔn yare.
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Mo ne nnipa nyinaa ntena ase asomdwoe mu, na mommɔ mmɔden ntena ase trenee mu. Anyɛ saa a, morenhu Awurade.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
15 Monhwɛ yiye na mo mu bi annan nʼakyi ankyerɛ Onyankopɔn adom no. Monhwɛ yiye na mo mu bi anyɛ sɛ afifide a ɛyɛ nwen a enyin ma ne bɔnwoma no haw afoforo.
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 Monhwɛ yiye na mo mu bi anyɛ oguamanfo ne obi a ɔmfɛre Onyankopɔn sɛ Esau a obuu nʼani guu nʼagyapade so tɔn nʼabakan a ɔyɛ de gyee aduan no.
lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17 Na afei eduu bere bi a ɔpɛɛ sɛ ne nsa ka nʼagya hɔ nhyira no, ɔde kamee no. Ɛwɔ mu sɛ ɔde nusu peree sɛ wanya adwensakra de, nanso anyɛ yiye.
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 Munhyiaa nneɛma a ɛyɛ hu, ogyatannaa, awerɛhow, sum ne ahum sɛnea Israelfo no hyiaa wɔ Sinai Bepɔw no so bere a Onyankopɔn de ne mmara no mae no.
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19 Efisɛ na wɔrebɔ torobɛnto denneennen a nne bi a ɛreka kasa a ɛyɛ hu nenam mu, nti nnipa no srɛɛ Onyankopɔn sɛ onnyae kasa,
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 efisɛ na wontumi nni mmara a na ɛka se, “Sɛ mpo aboa koraa de ne ho ka bepɔw no a, ɛsɛ sɛ wosiw no abo kum no” no so.
for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”.
21 Na beae hɔ yɛ hu ara kosii sɛ Mose kae se. “Misuro, na me ho popo.”
So fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”
22 Na mo de, moaba Sion Bepɔw so ne Onyankopɔn a ɔte ase no kurow, ɔsorosoro Yerusalem a ɔsoro abɔfo mpempem wɔ mu no mu.
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 Moaba Onyankopɔn asafomma dedaw a wɔn ani gye wɔn ho a wɔakyerɛw wɔn din wɔ ɔsoro no mu. Moaba Onyankopɔn a ɔyɛ nnipa nyinaa temmufo ne atreneefo a wɔayɛ wɔn pɛ no mu.
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 Moaba Yesu a ɔhyehyɛɛ apam foforo ne mogya a wɔapete a ɛka nneɛma pa ho asɛm sen Habel mogya no ho.
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 Monhwɛ mo ho so yiye na moammu mo ani angu asɛm a ɔka so. Wɔn a wɔantie nea ɔkasa fii asase so no amfa wɔn ho anni. Na ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na yɛatumi aguan afi nea ɔkasa fi ɔsoro no ho na yɛafa yɛn ho adi?
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t 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 Ne nne wosow asase saa bere no, nanso mprempren wahyɛ bɔ se, “Ɛnyɛ asase nko na mɛsan awosow no, na mɛwosow ɔsoro nso bio saa ara.”
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 Nsɛm “Nso bio saa ara” no da no adi pefee sɛ ɔbɛwosow nneɛma a wɔbɔɔ no na atutu afi wɔn anan mu na nneɛma a wontumi nwosow no aka.
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 Momma yɛnna so ase, efisɛ yɛanya ahenni a wɔwosow no a ɛnyɛ yiye. Momma yɛn ani nsɔ na yɛmfa ɔkwan a ɛbɛsɔ Onyankopɔn ani a ɛyɛ nidi ne osuro so nsom no,
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29 efisɛ nokware ni, yɛn Nyankopɔn yɛ ogya a ɛhyew na ɛsɛe ade.
for our God is a consuming fire.
