Matthew 23
1 Buna Yesu wukamba nkangu wu batu ayi minlonguki miandi:
THEN Jesus spake to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2 —Minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi kisalu kiawu sudikisa batu Mina mi Moyize.
saying, The scribes and Pharisees are seated on the chair of Moses;
3 Lutumukina ayi lukeba mambu moso bakulukamba. Vayi lubika landakana mavanga mawu bila mambu momo beti longa mawu ko beti sadila.
all things therefore which they prescribe for you to observe, observe and practise; but do not according to their works, for they say, yet do not practise.
4 Bazebi kanga mimfuna midi zitu ayi beti tula miawu va mavangiti ma batu vayi bawu veka bamengi nikunina miawu mu tsongi nlembo.
For they bind burdens grievous, and difficultly borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they will not move them with a finger of their own.
5 Mambu moso bamvanga batidi ti batu baba mona. Diawu zikesi zi fioti-fioti ziozi beti vuata mu thangu lusambulu zilutidi ziozi zibankaka mu kula ayi zitsongi zi mazuela mawu zidi zi mula.
And all their works they do to be seen of men: they make their phylacteries broad, and deepen the fringes of their garments,
6 Beti zola kaka vuandila mu bibuangu bi lukinzu mu minyengo ayi mu bikundu bitheti mu nzo zi zikhutukunu.
and love the principal couch at suppers, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 Beti zola baba vaninanga mboti vama vadi batu bawombo ayi babatedilanga “Nlongi”.
and salutations in the places of public concourse, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 Vayi beno babika kulutedilanga “Nlongi” bila beno babo lubeki Nlongi wumosi kaka ayi beno boso luidi bakhomba.
But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your leader, the Messiah; and ye all are brethren.
9 Kadi mutu wumosi vava ntoto lulendi tedila ko: “Tata” bila Tata dimosi kaka didi yeno, diodi didi ku Diyilu.
And call no man your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
10 Lubika talanga batu balutedila: “Pfumu” bila Pfumu yimosi kaka yidi yeno: Klisto.
And be not called leaders; for one is your leader, the Messiah.
11 Mutu wowo lutidi munneni va khatitsikꞌeno wela ba kisadi kieno.
But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 Woso mutu wukukinangika wela kululu ayi woso mutu wukukikulula wela nanguku.
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and whosoever abaseth himself shall be exalted.
13 —A mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila lueti kandika batu ba kota mu Kipfumu ki Diyilu ayi beno veka lukotanga ko! Ayi luvananga ko diluaku kuidi batu batidi kota bakota kuawu!
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven from men; for ye yourselves enter not in, and those who were coming in, ye suffer not to enter.
14 [O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila lueti zionanga bima bi mafuola ayi lueti sambilanga zitsambulu zimula muingi lumonika. Diawu luela bakila thumbudulu yilutidi tola.]
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.
15 A mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya. Lueti diengilanga mu mbu ayi mu ntoto mu diambu di tombanga kani lulenda baka, ka diambu ko nzenza wumosi wulenda kota mu dibundu dieno. Ayi enati lumbeki, lunkukitulanga muana wu bulungi mu zikhumbu zizole viokila beno veka. (Geenna g1067)
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him doubly more the child of hell than yourselves. (Geenna g1067)
16 A mabienga kuidi beno mintuadisi mifua meso. Beno lueti tuba ti enati mutu levidi ndefi mu “Nzo Nzambi”, diodi disi kuandi diambu ko. Vayi enati mutu levidi ndefi mu “nolo yidi mu Nzo Nzambi” buna kafueti dukisa ndefi andi.
Wo unto you ye blind guides! who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, it is binding.
17 Luidi bivungisi ayi Baphofo! A mbi bilutidi mfunu? Nolo voti nzo Nzambi yoyi yinkitulanga nolo yinlongo?
Ye fools and blind! for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple which consecrates the gold?
18 Lueti tuba diaka: enati mutu levidi ndefi va “diziku dimyokolongo bibulu bitambuku kuidi Nzambi”, diodi disi kuandi diambu ko; vayi enati levidi ndefi mu “dikaba diodi didi va diziku” buna kafueti dukisa ndefi andi.
And again, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, it is binding.
19 Baphofo! Diambu mbi dilutidi mfunu, makaba voti diziku dinkitulanga dikaba dinlongo?
Ye fools and blind! which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which consecrates the gift?
20 Mutu wowo levidi ndefi mu “diziku”, buna levidi yawu mu diziku ayi mu bima bioso bidi vana.
Whosoever therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it.
21 Mutu wowo levidi ndefi “mu nzo Nzambi”, buna levidi yawu mu dizina di nzo Nzambi ayi mu mutu wowo wunkalanga muna.
And whosoever sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him also who dwelleth in it.
22 Ayi mutu wowo levidi ndefi mu Diyilu, buna levidi yawu mu kundu ki Nzambi ayi mu mutu wowo wuvuandanga va kundu beni.
So he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him who is seated upon it.
23 O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu ba mayuya. Bila! Lueti vana Nzambi kuku kikumi mu bima biobi lueti kuna mu zitsola zieno banza mu bima biobi bifioti-fioti biobi lueti kuna. Vayi lusadilanga ko mambu malutidi pfumu mu Mina banga: vanganga masonga, monanga batu kiadi ayi vanganga makuikama. Nganu mawu momo mambu luvanga mu kambu lenza mamo mankaka.
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithes of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier precepts of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these thing ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.
24 Mintuadisi mifua meso! Lueti sosanga biobi lueti nua muingi zinzinzi zifioti-fioti zibika vioka vayi lumminanga bulu kinneni kioki beti tedila kamela.
Ye blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel.
25 O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi beno Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Lunsukulanga va mbata kopo ayi va mbata dilonga vayi mu khati mu wala bima biobi lueti yiba ayi zitsatu zieno zimbimbi.
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and of the dish, but within they are full of rapacity and intemperance.
26 Bafalisi bafua meso! Lutuama theti sukula mu khati kopo ayi mu khati dilonga, bosi buna mu mbata mamusukuka.
Thou blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that their outside may become clean also.
27 O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila luidi banga biziami biobi bivindu nlangi yi phembi ayi ku nganda bimmonikanga kitoko vayi mu khati mu wala mimvesi mi batu bafua, mvindu ayi kheni yi phila mu phila.
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and all manner of impurity.
28 Beno mamveno, ku nganda lummonikanga basonga va meso ma batu vayi mu khati muwala mayuya ayi mambu mambimbi ma phila mu phila.
And just so, ye without indeed appear to men righteous, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu mayuya! Luntunganga biziami bi mimbikudi ayi lumfuanisanga bumboti biziami bi batu basonga,
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the just,
30 ayi lueti tubanga: “Enati beto tuzinga mu thangu bakulu beto nganu tusia bundana yawu ko mu vonda mimbikudi.”
and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Bu luntuba bobo lulembo telama beno veka kimbangi ti luidi bana ba batu bobo bavonda mimbikudi.
Wherefore ye bear a testimony to yourselves, that ye are the children of those who killed the prophets.
32 Diawu manisanu kisalu kioki kitona bakulu beno.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye broods of vipers! how can ye escape from the damnation of hell? (Geenna g1067)
34 Ndiela lufidisila mimbikudi, batu badi nduenga ayi minlongi mi Mina. Luela vonda bankaka, luela bandisa bankaka va dikulusi vayi bankaka luela babeta bikoti mu zinzo zieno zi zikhutukunu, bosi luela kuba yamisa mu divula dimosi-dimosi
Therefore, behold, I am sending to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye shall kill, and crucify; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35 muingi menga, ma batu boso basonga, momo matenguka tona mu Abeli mutu wusonga nate mu Zakali muana Balaki; mutu wowo luvonda va khatitsika Nzo Nzambi ayi diziku diodi banyokilanga Nzambi makaba, matangulu mu mintu mieno.
that upon you may come all the righteous blood which hath been poured out upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel, to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Bukiedika ndikulukamba mambu moso mama mela buila batu ba tsungi yayi.
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come on this generation.
37 —A Yelusalemi! A Yelusalemi e! Ngeyo wumvondanga mimbikudi ayi wunlozilanga matadi batu bobo Nzambi kakufidisilanga. Zikhumbu zikua ndizola kutikisa bana baku banga tsusu bu kankutikisilanga bana bandi ku tsi mavavi mandi. Vayi wumanga kuaku.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?
38 Tala, nzoꞌaku yikuiza ba dio wuya, yikambu bima.
Behold, your habitation is left unto you desolate.
39 Diawu, ndikulukambila: tona buabu lulendi buela kumbona ko nate thangu luela tuba: Bika kasakumunu mutu wowo wunkuizila mu dizina di Pfumu.
For I tell you, Ye shall henceforth no more see me, until ye say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
