1 Thessalonians 2
1 For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
Mobanse, amwe mobene mucinshi kwambeti kufwakasha kwetu kwalikuba kwaina.
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.
Mucinshi mbuli bantu baku Filipi ncobalatupensha nekutusebanya, katutana kwisa ku Tesalonika. Necikabeco Lesa walatuyumisha moyo mpaka twalacikosha kumukambaukila Mulumbe Waina weshikufuma kulyendiye nambi bangi balikutoteka.
3 For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
Pakwinga mbyetwalikukambauka nkatwalasebensesha miyeyo yaipa nambi kuyanda kubepa bantu sobwe.
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.
Nsombi tukute kukambauka mbuli Lesa ncakute kuyandeti twinse, pakwinga Lesa walatusuminisha kwambeti twelela kupewa mulimo wakukambauka Mulumbe Waina. Nkatuleleshenga kukondwelesha bantu sobwe, nsombi kukondwelesha Lesa uyo ukute kwinshiba miyeyo yetu.
5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
Mucinshi cena kwambeti nkatwalesa kulinjamwe ne maswi akuyanda kumukondwelesha nambi kwambeti tucaninepo pindu kulinjamwe, Lesa ekamboni wetu.
6 nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
Nkatwalayanda kulumbwa ne muntu uliyense nambi amwe, nambi bambi,
7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
cakubinga mpotwalasenga lunyamfo netukaba batumwa ba Yesu Klistu twalalibombelesha pakumusenga bintu mbuli mushali mutukashi ncakute kulama cena banabendi.
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.
Pacebo cakumusunishisha twalikuba twalibambila kumuyabila Mulumbe Waina weshi kufuma kuli Lesa kayi ne buyumi bwetu. Pakwinga mwalikuba mwasunika kulinjafwe.
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.
Mobanse mwengashila cena mbuli ncotwalasebensa cangofu pakati penu, twalasebensa munshi ne mashiku kwambeti tutamupensha mubintu mbyotwalikuyanda kusebensesha mpotwali kumukambaukila Mulumbe Waina wa Lesa.
10 You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
Njamwe bakamboni betu pamo ne Lesa, kwambeti bwikalo bwetu pakati penu amwe bashoma bwalikuba bwaswepa, bwalululama kayi bwabula kampenda.
11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
Lino mucinshi kwambeti twalikushako mano kuli uliyense pakati penu mbuli mushali mutuloba ncakute kulama banabendi.
12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
Twalamuyuminisha ne kumutontosha myoyo, kayi ne kumwambila cangofu kwambeti mwelela kuba ne bwikalo bwakukondwelesha Lesa, uyo lamukunga kwambeti mukengile mu Bwami bwabulemu bwakendi.
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.
Nomba kuli cebo nacimbi cikute kupesheti tulumbaishe Lesa. Mpotwalamuletela Mulumbe Waina mwalaukutika nekusumina.
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
Mobanse, bintu bimobimo byalamwinshikila byalenshikila kumibungano ya Lesa ili muli Yesu Klistu yaku Yudeya. Nomba bantu bakucomwenu balamupensha mbuli Bayuda ncebalapensha baklistu baku Yudeya.
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,
Abo balashina Mwami Yesu ne bashinshimi balikubako kaindi, kayi ebalatupensha. Aba nkabakute kukondwelesha Lesa sobwe, kayi ebapelana ne bantu bonse.
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.
Balelesha kutukanisha kukambuka Mulumbe Waina kubantu ba kunsa kwambeti batambule lupulusho. Neco balalibunjikila bwipishi bwabo bonse cakwambeti bukalu bwa Lesa bulabashikili.
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,
Mobanse necikabeti twalapansana nenjamwe kwa kacindi cing'ana kumubili nsombi mumiyeyo tuli pamo, twalikuyandishisha kwambeti tukabonane menso ne menso. Nambi twalamushiya myoyo yetu yalikubowa nenjamwe.
18 because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
Ecebo cakendi twalikuyandishisha kubwelela kwisa kumubona, ame ndalelekesha kwisa kayi nteko kankanda kamowa nsombi tubili, nomba Satana walatabankana panshila.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
Anu kupembelela kwetu nicani? Inga kukondwa kwetu nicani? Kayi ne cilambo cetu nicani ncetwelela kutwangila Mwami wetu akesa? Sena ntamwe?
20 For you are our glory and our joy.
Cakubinga bulemu bwetu nekukondwa kwetu njamwe.
