1 Wakoritho 15
1 Lino nikuvakumbusia, mwe vakuulu numue va mwanilumbu, vwimila vwa livangili lino nikavadalikile, lino mulyupile na kukwima kuvanave.
But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,
2 Mulivangili iili muvanguike, nave mukulikola vunofu ilisio lino nivadalikile umue, nakwekuuti mulyitike vuvule.
through which also you are obtaining salvation, if you bear in mind the words in which I proclaimed it--unless indeed your faith has been unreal from the very first.
3 Nave ulwakwasia vuli nilyupile nhu lukangasio nilyaletile kulyumue ndavule lilivuo: kuuti kuhuma mumalembe, u Kilisite alyafwile vwimila vwa vuhosi vwitu,
For I repeated to you the all-important fact which also I had been taught, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;
4 kuhuma mumalembe alya syililue, nakuuti alya syukile ikighono kya vutatu.
that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
5 Nakwekuuti ulya muhumile u Kefa, kange kuvala kijigho na fivili.
and was seen by Peter, and then by the Twelve.
6 Looli alyavahumile mu nsikighumo avakuulu na vamwanilombu kukila ifilundo fihano. Vinga vavanave vajighe vwumi, looli vamo muvanave vighona ituulu.
Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.
7 Kange alyahumile u Yakobo, kange n'sungua ghwa vooni.
Afterwards He was seen by James, and then by all the Apostles.
8 Muvusililo vwa ghoni, alyanihumile une, nave vule kwa mwaanha juno alyaholilue mu nsiki ghuno na ghweghwene.
And last of all, as to one of untimely birth, He appeared to me also.
9 Ulwakuva une nilin'debe pavasung'ua. Naninoghile kutambulua n'sung'ua, ulwakuva niya pumwike mulukong'ano lwa Nguluve.
For I am the least of the Apostles, and am not fit to be called an Apostle--because I persecuted the Church of God.
10 Looli kulusungu lwa Nguluve Pwenile heene nilivuo, kange ulusungu lwa mwene kulyune nalulivulevule. Pa uluo, nilyavombile ku ngufu kukila vooni. Looli ulusungu lwa Nguluveb luno lulimun! kate mulyune.
But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest--yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.
11 Pa uluo nave nene nambe aveene, tudalikila anala kange tukwitika anala.
But whether it is I or they, this is the way we preach and the way that you came to believe.
12 Lino nave u Kilisite akadalikivue heene asyukile kuva fue, luve ndani mulyumue mujova na kwevule uvusyuke kuvafue?
But if Christ is preached as having risen from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?
13 Looli nave kwevule uvusyuke kuvafue, kange nave u Kilisite nakasyukile.
If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.
14 Nave u Kilisite nasyukile, pa uluo amadalikile ghitu vwe vuvule, kange ulwitiko lwinu lwe vuvule.
And if Christ has not risen, it follows that what we preach is a delusion, and that your faith also is a delusion.
15 Kange tuvonike kuuva volesi va vudesi vwimila u Nguluve, ulwakuva tulyolelile u Nguluve sino na sesene kuuti alya syusisie u Kilisite, unsikibghuno nakan'syusisie.
Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.
16 Ndavule avafue nave navisyuka, u Yesu kange nakasyukile.
For if none of the dead are raised to life, then Christ has not risen;
17 Nave u Kilisite nakasyukile, ulwitiko lwinu lwe vuvule kange mujighe kwe mule muvuhosi vwinu.
and if Christ has not risen, your faith is a vain thing--you are still in your sins.
18 Pa uluo nambe vaala vano vakafwile mwa Kilisite kange voope vatipulue.
It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 Nave kuvukalo uvu umwene jujuo tulinulukangasio munsiki ghuno ghukwisa mun'kate mwa Kilisite, avaanhu vooni, usue tuli vakusaghilua kukila avaanhu vooni.
If in this present life we have a hope resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.
20 Looli lino u Kilisite asyukile kuhuma kuva fue, imeke sa kwasia savaala vano vafwile.
But, in reality, Christ has risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep.
21 Ulwakuva uvufue vukisile kukila umuunhu, kange kukila umuunhu uvusyuke vwa vafue.
For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead.
22 Ulwakuva nave u Adamu vooni vifua, pa uluo u Kilisite vooni vivombua vwumi.
For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again.
23 Looli umuunhu ghweeni mu mbombo ja mwene: Kilisite, imeke sa kwasia kange sino silikuvala vano va Kilisite vivombua vwumi unsiki ughwa kwasia kwa mwene.
But this will happen to each in the right order--Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ's people rising at His return.
24 Pe vuva vwe vusililo, pala u Kilisite pano ikum'pela uvutua kwa Nguluve Nhaata. Ulu pe pala pano iiliva ivusia ipumusia uvutemi vwoni nhuvu tavulilua vwoni ni ngufu.
Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.
25 Ulwakuva anoghile kutema m'paka iliiva iviika avalugu va mwene vooni paasi pa sajo sa mwene.
For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet.
26 Umulugu ghwa vusililo kunanganisivua uvufue.
The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death;
27 Ulwakuva “avikile kila kiinu paasi pa sajo sa mwene.” Looli pano lijoveka “aviikile kila kinu,” pa vwelu kuuti najiling'anisivue na vaala vano valyam'bikile kiila kiinu paasi pa mwene jujuo.
for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that "All things are in subjection," it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him.
28 Unsiki ifinu fivikilue pasi pa mweene, looli umwana jujuo ibika pasi kwa mwene. Umwene juno afibikile ifinu fyoni mwene. Ulu lukahumile ulwakuuti u Nguluve u Nhaata ave ghooni mu fyooni.
But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.
29 Nambe kange vivomba kiki vaala vano vofughilue vwimila vwa vafue? Nave avafue navisyuka, nakiki kange vikwofughua vwimila vu vanave?
Otherwise what will become of those who got themselves baptized for the dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why are these baptized for them?
30 Nakiki tulimuvutalamu kiila nsiki?
Why also do we Apostles expose ourselves to danger every hour?
31 Vakuulu numue vamwanilumbu vango, kukila kukughinia kulyune mulyumue, luno nilinalwo mwa Kilisite Yesu Mutwa ghwitu, nipulisia ndiiki: nifua mu fighono fyoni.
I protest, brethren, as surely as I glory over you--which I may justly do in Christ Jesus our Lord--that I die day by day.
32 Lukunivumbulila kiki, mundolele ija vaanhu, nave nikatovine nifikanu ifilefi ukuo ku Efeso, nave avafue navisyuka? “Buhila kange tulie na kunyua, ulwakuva pakilavo tufua.”
If from merely human motives I have fought with wild beasts in Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die.
33 Namungasyanganaghe: “Ifupugha ifivivi finangania uluvelo ulunofu.
Do not deceive yourselves: "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."
34 “Mughelaghe! mukalaghe muvwakyang'haani namungajighaghe kuvomba uvuhosi. Ulwakuva vamo mulyumue namulinuvu mang'anyi vwa Nguluve. Nijova n'diki sooni sinu.
Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
35 Looli umuunhu ujunge ijova, “Vuuli avafue visyuka? Voope vikwisa nu m'bili ghuki?”
But some one will say, "How can the dead rise? And with what kind of body do they come back?"
36 Uve ulinjasu kyongo! kiila kino ukavyalile nakinoghile kutengula kumela looli na kwekuuti kifwile.
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
37 Nikila kino ghuvyala naghwe m'biili ghuno ghukula, looli se seke sino silemba. Lunoghile kuva ngano nambe ikinhu kiinge.
and as for what you sow, it is not the plant which is to be that you are sowing, but a bare grain, of wheat (it may be) or of something else, and God gives it a body as He has seen fit,
38 Looli u Nguluve ikughupela um'bili ndavule ighanile, na museke ghwe m'bili ghwa mwene jujuo.
and to each kind of seed a body of its own.
39 Amaviili ghoni naghiling'ana. looli na kwekuuti, kweghule um'bili ghumo ughwa muunhu, kange um'bili ughunge ughwa fikanu, num'bili ughunge ughwa fijuni, nu ghunge vwimila vwa samaki.
All flesh is not the same: there is human flesh, and flesh of cattle, of birds, and of fishes.
40 Kange kweghale amaviili agha ku kyanya namaviili agha mu iisi. Looli uvwitike vwa maviili gha kukyanya ghwe ghumo nu vwitike vwa iisi je jinge.
There are bodies which are celestial and there are bodies which are earthly, but the glory of the celestial ones is one thing, and that of the earthly ones is another.
41 Kwe vuule uvwitike vuumo uvwa lijuva, kenge nuvwitike uvunge uvwa mwesi, nu vwitike uvunge uvwa nondue. Ulwa kuva inondue jiimo najiling'ana ni nondue ijinge mu vwitike.
There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 Pa uluo fyefino ulivuo kange uvusyetulilo vwa vufue. Kino kivyalua kinangika, kange kino kimela nakinangika.
It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay;
43 Kivyalilue mumavombele gha vulevule, kivyalilue mu vwitike. Kivyalilue mu vuvotevote, kimela mu ngufu.
it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44 Kivyalilue mu m'bili ghwa lwiho, kimela mu m'bili ghwa Kimhepo. Nave kweghule u m'bili ghwa lwiho, kweghule u m'bili ughwa Kimhepo kange.
an animal body is sown, a spiritual body is raised. As surely as there is an animal body, so there is also a spiritual body.
45 Pa uluo kange lilembilue, “Umuunhu ghwa kwasia u Adamu alyavombike mhepo jino jikukala.” U Adamu ghwa vusililo alyavombike Mhepo jino jihumia uvwumi.
In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.
46 Looli ughwa Kimhepo naalisiile tasi looli ghwe vutengulilo, pa mbele ughwa Kimhepo.
Nevertheless, it is not what is spiritual that came first, but what is animal; what is spiritual came afterwards.
47 Umuunhu un'tasi ghwa mu iisi, alya vumbilue nuli ng'unde. Umuunhu ghwa vuviili ihuma ku kyanya.
The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.
48 Ndavule juula junonalyavumbilue nulu ng'unde, vulevule kange vaala vanovakavumbilue nulu ng'unde. Ndavule kange umuunhu ughwa kukyanya alivuo kange vulevule vala avakukyanya.
What the earthy one is, that also are those who are earthy; and what the heavenly One is, that also are those who are heavenly.
49 Ndavule kange tupiindile ikihwani kya muunhu ughwa lung'unde, vule kange tulipinda ikihwani kya muunhu ughwa kukyanya.
And as we have borne a resemblance to the earthy one, let us see to it that we also bear a resemblance to the heavenly One.
50 Lino nikuvavula, vakuulu numue va mwanilumbu vaango, kuuti um'bili ni danda nafikagwile ku hara uvutua vwa Nguluve. Nambe ughwa kunangania kuhala vano navinangika.
But this I tell you, brethren: our mortal bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor will what is perishable inherit what is imperishable.
51 Lolagha! Nikuvavula umue uvusyefu vwa kyang'haani: Natulifua twevooni, looli usue tweni tulihambusivua.
I tell you a truth hitherto kept secret: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 Tulihambusivua mumasiki, ku sisila na kulola ni liso, mu lukelema ulwa vusililo. Ulwakuva ulukelemo lulakuta, navafue valasyusivuagha nu lwakuleka ku nangika, kange pe tulahambusivua.
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sounding of the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incapable of decay, and we shall be changed.
53 Ulwakuva uvu uvwa kunangika ghunoghela kufwala ghuno naghunangika, ghwope ughu ughwa kufua ghunoghile kufwala ghuno naghufua.
For so it must be: this perishable nature must clothe itself with what is imperishable, and this mortality must clothe itself with immortality.
54 Looli unsiki ughu ughwa kunangika ghungafwikue ghuno naghunangika, ghwope ughu ughwa kufua ghungafwale ghuno naghufua, apuo pelukwisa ulujovo luno lulembilue, “ifua jigulubukue mu vulefie.”
But when this perishable nature has put on what is imperishable, and this mortality has put on immortality, then will the words of Scripture be fulfilled, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
"Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?" (Hadēs g86)
56 Uvuvafi vwa fua se yivi, ni ngufu sa nyivi se ndaghilo.
Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;
57 Looli hongera kwa Nguluve, juno ikutupela usue kulefia kukilila mwa Mutwaghwiti Yesu Kilisite!
but God be thanked who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58 Lino, vaghanike vakuulu numue va mwanilumbu vango, mwimaghe mukangalaghe namungasukanikaghe. Jaatu muvombaghe imbombo ja Mutwa, ulwakuuva mukagwile kuuti imbombo jinu mwa Mutwa namulivuvule.
Therefore, my dear brethren, be firm, unmovable, busily occupied at all times in the Lord's work, knowing that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
