Romans 9
1 Mambu ndituba mu Klisto madi makiedika ayi ndikadi vuna. Mayindu mama ma ntima meti kuthelimina kimbangi mu Pheve Yinlongo:
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 ti kiadi kingolo kidi yama ayi phasi yika yilendi suka ko yidi yama mu ntima.
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3 Bila minu veka nditomba singu kuidi Nzambi ayi vambana ayi Klisto mu diambu di bakhomba ziama, bibutu biama bi dikanda.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my physical relatives according to the flesh,
4 Bawu badi basi Iseli, bobo bakitulu bana bandi ayi bavuidi nkembo, zinguizani, dikaba di tambula Mina; tsambudulu yi kiedika ayi zitsila;
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises;
5 bawu bavuidi bakulu. Mu kimutu, Klisto wutotukila mu bawu: Niandi wunyadila bima bioso. Nzambi niandi wunsakumunanga mu zithangu zioso. Amen. (aiōn g165)
of whom are the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ, as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Bika sia ti mambu ma Nzambi mabedoso bila baboso batotukila mu Iseli basiko basi Iseli.
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
7 Bobuawu, babo badi mu nkuna Abalahami basi ko bana bandi. Bila Nzambi wukamba Abalahami: Mu Isaki kaka muela totukila nkunꞌaku.
Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your descendants be called."
8 Bu dinsundula ti: bika sia ti bana bobo babutukila mu kinsuni bawu bana ba Nzambi, vayi bobo babutukila mu tsila bawu bantangulungu bana ba nkuna.
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
9 Bila mambu mama madi mambu ma tsila: Mu tsungi yayi ndiela kuiza ayi Sala wela buta muana wu bakala.
For this is what the promise said, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."
10 Bika sia ti mambu momo kaka vayi buawu bobo mu Lebeka, mutu wowo wubutulu bitsimba kuidi dise dimosi, nkulu eto Isaki.
And not only that, but Rebekah also had conceived by one, our father Isaac.
11 Bila tuamina bitsimba bibutuka ayi buna bavengi ko kadi diambu dimosi di mboti voti di mbimbi mu diambu di dedikisa tsobodolo yi Nzambi; bika sia ti mu diambu di mavanga vayi mu diambu di mutu wowo wutela;
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
12 niandi bakamba ti: nleki wela yadila nkulutu.
it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."
13 Banga bu disonimina: minu ndizola Yakobi ayi ndilenda Esawu.
Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 Buna mbi tutuba e? Nzambi kasi wusonga ko e? Nana buawu ko.
What should we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not.
15 Bila niandi wukamba Moyize: Minu ndiela monina kiadi woso mutu thidi mona kiadi. Ayi ndiela vangila mamboti kuidi woso thidi vangila mamboti.
For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 Momo masi ko mu diambu di luzolo lu mutu voti mu diambu di zingolo zi mutu vayi madi mu diambu di Nzambi wummonanga batu kiadi.
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
17 Bila mu masonoko Nzambi wukamba Falawo ti: Mu bila kioki minu nditotula muingi ndimonisa lulendo luama mu ngeyo; muingi dizina diama diyamukusu va ntoto wumvimba.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 Diawu niandi weti mona kiadi woso mutu katidi mona kiadi ayi weta kitula mfua matu woso mutu wu kazodidi.
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
19 Buna ngeyo wela kukhamba: bila mbi kakidi tubidilanga e? Bila nani wulenda kakidila luzolo luandi e?
You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"
20 Mutu, ngeyo widi nani mu findana ziphaka ayi Nzambi e? Kima kivangu kilenda tuba kuidi mutu wuvanga kiawu ti: “Bila mbiwuphangila buabu e?”
But who indeed are you, a human being, to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
21 Mbumbi kasi ko minsua mu vanga mu tuma tumosi nzungu yi nzitusu ayi yinkaka yikambulu nzitusu e?
Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
22 Buna mbi wulenda tuba enati Nzambi, bu kazola monisa nganzi andi ayi monisa lulendo luandi, wuvibidila mu thangu yinda zinzungu zituma zi nganzi zikubuku mu bivusu e?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
23 Bosi mbi diaka wulenda tuba enati Nzamni wuvanga buawu mu diambu di monisa kimvuama ki nkemboꞌandi mu zinzungu zituma zi kiadi zikakubika tona thama mu diambu di nkembo e?
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
24 Bila beto katela, bika sia ti muidi Bayuda kaka vayi ayi mu Bapakanu.
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the non-Jews?
25 Banga bu katubila mu nkanda Oze: Bobo basia ba batu bama ko, ndiela ku batedila “batu bama” Nketo wowo wusia ba kiluzolo kiama ko, ndiela kuntedila kiluzolo.
As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them which were not my people 'my people,' and her who was not loved, 'loved.'"
26 Va buangu kioki baba kambila ti: “beno luisi batu bama ko” vana bela ku batedila: “bana ba Nzambi yi moyo.”
"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"
27 Ezayi wutuba mu diambu di Iseli ti: Enati thalu yi bana ba Iseli yilenda dedakana banga nzielo yi mbu, ndambu yela siala yawu kaka yela vuka.
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be kept safe.
28 Bila mu nsualu ayi mu bufuana Pfumu kela zengila mambu va ntoto.
For he will fulfill the word and decisively in righteousness; because the Lord will carry out the word decisively in the midst of the earth."
29 Banga Ezayi bu katuama tuba: Enati Pfumu yi minkangu mi masodi kasia kutubikila ndambu wu nkuna wu batu ko, nganu tudedakana banga basi Sodoma; nganu tuba banga basi Ngomola.
As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."
30 A diambu mbi tutuba e? Bapakanu, bankambu kuawu landakananga busonga babakudi busonga; busonga bobo buntotukilanga mu minu.
What should we say then? That the non-Jews, who did not follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
31 Vayi Iseli bu kalandakana Mina mu diambu di ba wusonga kasia tula ku Mina beni ko.
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
32 Bila mbi e? Bila Iseli kasia kumilandikinina ko mu minu vayi mu mavanga. Babumina thutu mu ditadi,
Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
33 banga bu masonimina: Tala, minu thudidi ditadi mu Sioni ditadi di mbumina batu thutu ayi ditadi dinneni di mbuisa batu;
even as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock to trip over; and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."
