1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
Mbuli mbumuzi lwanu, bakwesu, kuti kuza kwesu kuli ndinywe tekwali kwabiyo.
2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
Naabi mbuli mbumuzi, mikuba chiindi twakafwabisigwa akujatwa chakuusa kuFilipi, twakasima muliLeza wesu kwambula mumakani mabotu aaLeza mukombozeka kwinji.
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
Nkambo kakukombelezya kwesu tetwaka zwa kukubisya, mbuli nakwakazwa kukusalalamikuba kulweeno.
4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
Kwinda mbuli mbutwakazumininwa aLeza, akusyomeka kumakani mabotu, lino tulambula, chakutabotezya muntu, pesi Leza ngonguwe uyoolanga myoyo yesu.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
Elyo takwe nitwaka belesya majwi akuyosya, mbuli mbumuzi, na amuzee zowakuvumba butangazu Leza mukkamboni wesu.
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
Na tuyandula bulemu buzwa kubantu, nikuba kuzwa kulindinywe, na ba apositolo aabami.
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
Ikwinda, twakaba batete akti kanumbuli banyina bawumbulizya bana babo.
8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
Munzila eeyi twakali kumuyanda. Twakabotelwa kwabana andinywe kakutali kumani aaLeza luzutu pesi alimwi abuumi bwesu. Mbuli kuti mwakati mwaba bayandwi kulindiswe.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
Mbuli mbumuyeya, bakwesu, milimu yesu amamanino. Mansiku asikati twakali kubeleka kuti tuatabi mukuli kulumwi awumwi akati kanu. Mbuli mbutwaka kambawuka makani mabotu aaLeza.
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
Inywe mulibakkamboni, alimwi aaLeza mbuli mbwasalala, mbwaluleme, achakutaba amulandu, yakuba imponeno kuli ndinywe nimusyoma.
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
Munzila njiyeeyo mulizi mbutwakalibede kuli umwi awumwi wanu, mbuli wisi kubana bakwe, ndamusiya akumumbulizya akumukombelezya
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
kuti mweende munzila iyeelede yaLeza, umwita kubwami akubulemu.
13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
Nkambo kakaako alimwi tilumba Leza lyoonse, kuti na mwatambula ijwi lyaLeza eelyo ndimwakamvwa kuzwa kuli ndiswe, temwakalitambula anga lyakazwa kumunt, pesi mbuli akakasimpe, ndijwi lyaLeza alimwi lila aamulimui mulindinywe nimusyoma.
14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
Alimwi bakwesu mwakaba basikwiiya bambungano zyaLeza zili muJudiya muliKkilisito Jesu. Nkikaako alimwi mwakafwabisigwa muzintu zikozyene kuzwa kubantu banyika yanu, mbuli mbubakachita kuzwa kumaJuda.
15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
Bakajaya antoomwe Mwami Jesu abansimi alimwi bakatutandila anze. tababotezyi Leza. Kwinda, Kukazyanya abantu boonse.
16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
Batukasya kwambula abaMasi kuti bafutulwe. Impindu njakuti lyoonse bakali kuzuzya zibi zyabo kusikila kumamanino.
17 But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,
Pesi iswe bakwesu, twakali pambukene andinywe kwachiindi chifwifwi mubuntu peepe mumoyo. Twakalipeda loko, achiyandisyo chipati kuti tubone masyu anu.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
Mbokunga twakali kuyanda kusika kulindinywe - ichonzyo me - Pawulo, lumwi alubo - pesi Satani wakatwimikizya.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Nkaambo ninzi bulangizi bwesu na kubotelwa, na musini wakulisumpula kunembo lyaMwami Jesu kukuboola kwakwe? Tensi nduwe?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
Mbokunga uli bulemu, alukondo lwesu.
