1 Utasalonika 3

1 Bara na imone wa kata akara bite tikpilya i haun ichinari Athens.

Therefore, when we could not stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

2 Tina tuu Thimoti ku gbana bite unan kataah Kutelle nya kadura kamang in Yesu ada timinu akara nya kidegen mine.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

3 Yenjen umong mine wa fya kibinai nyan neou anin atimine yiru bara nenere inna fere-eh nari.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

4 Kden kube na tiwa nan ghinu, tiwa belin minu nyan bun tiba nieu, uni na lawa kidene nafo naiyiru.

For truly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

5 Bara nene na imone kata nin mmini to-oh nyinin kidegen mine yenje sa unan duzune na duzun minu kataah bite nahna.

For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

6 Na Thimoty wa dak kitibite unuzu kitimine nin kadura ka mang, kan kidegen nin suu nin uworu na ishawa nin nari ba tuung, idinin suu iyene nari nafo na arik dinin suu tiyene minu.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

7 Bara nene linwana tiwa se akara nibinai nya kidegem mine kidira nin nieu.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

8 Nene ridi mang, asa iyisina nin nin na nagang nya Chilari.

For now we live, since you stand firm in the Lord.

9 Uyapin ugodoari tiba ni Kutelle bara anun, bara mmang mo-oh nati dimu nbun Kutelleh kittene mine.

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

10 Kittik nin lirin ti din nliranina kara bara tiyene itmuro mine tinin ni ile imon na idinin lidarinya kidegen mine.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

11 Na Kutelleh nin Chif bite litime aChilari bite Yesu duro nari udina udak kitimine.

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you;

12 Na chilari kpin ngardang suu minu udu linwana a nit vat, nafo na ari din su udu kitimine.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, even as we also do toward you,

13 Asuu nene bara kpin minu akara nibinai nyang salin dinonnin lau nbun Kutelleh nin Chif, asa Chikilari bite Yesu ba dak nin na lau me vat.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.