Ugalantiyawa 3
1 Anung anan Galantiyawa alalang, ghari na su minu tikanci? Anung na iwa bana Yisa Kristi ku niyizi mine kitene kucha, ikotinghe tikusa niyizi mine?
Foolish Galatians! Who has been enchanting you – you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was depicted on the cross?
2 Ilelere cas in di nin su iyininin kitimine. Ina seru uruhe nan nya dortu dukaria sa bara uyinnu nin nilemmon na ina lanzari?
Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you – Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?
3 Idi alala kan naniya? Ina cizin nan nya nruhu inani ma malzunu nan nya kidowa?
Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?
4 Ina sono uniu nin nimon gbardang nani hemma, andi nanere hemmaria?
Did you go through so much to no purpose? – if indeed it really was to no purpose!
5 Andi nanere ame ule na adin nizu minu uruhue, amini din su katuwa nakara nan nya mine, unuzun ndortun ndukaria sa unuzun in lanzu lirun yinnu sa uyenuari?
He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers – does he do this as the result of obedience to Law? Or as the result of your having listened with faith?
6 Nafo na Ibrahim “wa yinnin nin Kutellẹ, inani wa batizaghe mun nafo fiu Kutellẹ.”
It is just as it was with Abraham – he had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.
7 Nene nuwana, yinnon ale na iyinna nonon Ibrahimari.
You see, then, that those whose lives are based on faith are the sons of Abraham.
8 Ulirue di ina malu uyinnu Kutellẹ ma su anan salin dortume ushara nnuzu yinnu sa uyenu minere. Ina belli ulirun tuchun nnuzun Ibrahimme uworsu nenge, “Kitifere vat anan salin yiru Kutellẹ ima ti nani nmari.”
And scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the good news to Abraham in the words – “Through you all the Gentiles will be blessed.”
9 Nanere ale na ina yinnin sa uyenu idi nin mari nin Ibrahim, ana yinnin sa uyenu.
And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed on the faith of Abraham.
10 Ngbardang na lenge na idin su katuwa nshara nin kidowo imase ula'ana. Bara ina yertin “Unan la'anari unit ule na adi su vat nimon ile na ina nyertin nan nya niyerte nduka ba.”
All who rely on obedience to Law are under a curse, for scripture says – “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the book of the Law, and do it.”
11 Nene udi kanan na Kutellẹ ma ti umong se usurtu bara uduka ba, “Bara unit ulau mati ulai unuzun yinnu sa uyeneri.”
Again, it is evident that no one is pronounced righteous before God through Law, for we read – “Through faith the righteous will find life.”
12 Na uduka di unuzun yinnu sa uyenuari ba, una di, “Ule na adin dortu uduke mati ulai nan nya duke.”
But the Law is not based on faith; no, its words are – “Those who practice these precepts will find life through them.”
13 Kristi na seru nari nan nya kitin lla'ana nduka na ame wa so ula'ana bara arik, na ina nyertin, “Vat in nit ule na ibanaghe kucha unan la'anari.”
Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for scripture says – “Cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.”
14 finu nlire wadi alumai ban se nmari unuzun nan nya Kristi Yisa, bara tinan se userun likawali nruhu unuzun yinnu sa uyenu.
And this he did that the blessing given to Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through their union with Jesus Christ; that so, through our faith, we also might receive the promised gift of the Spirit.
15 Linuana, idin liru nafo anit. Andi ma unitari na tti nsue, asa iwutu kimal nin na unan sakue dukuba a na unan kpinu ma duku ba.
To take an illustration, friends, from daily life – No one sets aside even an agreement between two people, when once it has been confirmed, nor do they add conditions to it.
16 Nene usunu nnuwe iwa belli Ibrahim ku nin kuwunu me. Na iwa woro “awunuari ba” nafo adi gbardang, kunin kurumari cas, “nani udu kuwunu fe,” kristiari une di.
Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, “and to his offspring.” It was not said “to his offsprings,” as if many persons were meant, but the words were “to your offspring,” showing that one person was meant – and that was Christ.
17 Nene in din bellu usunu nnuwe na Kutellẹ na malu wutu kimale na ana musuzu unin nin duka ule na uwa dak kimal nakus akalt anas nin nakut atat ba.
My point is this – An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.
18 Andi ugadue wa dak unuzu kitin ndukari, uso na unuzu kitin nsunun nuwari ba. Bara Kutellẹ na ni unin tọp kitin Ibrahim unuzun nsunun nnu.
If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.
19 Bari iyaghari inani? Inan kpiku bara ukaluzun liru, se kuwunu kon go na ina sun kunin unuwe nda kiti nale na ina sun nani unuwe, iwa cizin katuwa nin duke kiti na nan kadura Kutellẹ kiti nacaran nnan piru kitik.
What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make people conscious of their wrongdoings, and intended to last only until the coming of that offspring to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.
20 Nene na unan piru kitike unit urumari ba, Vat nani Kutellẹ kurumari.
Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.
21 Nane uduka din serzu tikot nin sunu tinu Kutellẹ? Na nanere ba! Andi iwa ni uduka ule na uwasa una ulai, kidegen fiu Kutellẹ wa dak unuzun dukari une.
Does that set the Law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a Law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to Law.
22 Vat nani uliru ulau in yatca imon vat nan nya kulapi. Nani usunun nnu Kutellẹ nworu a tucu nari nnuzu in yinnu sa uyenu nan nya Yisa Kristi iwa ni alẹ na iwa yinnin.
But the words of scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.
23 A uyinnu sa uyenu nin Kristi dutusa udak, iwa yachu i nyeshe nari nin duka udu kubin nutunu in yinnu sa uyenue.
Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the faith that was destined to be revealed.
24 Uduke uni waso unan rissu nari udo mun kitin Kristi, tinan se usurtu unuzun yinnu sa uyenu.
Thus the Law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.
25 Nene na uyinnu sa uyenu na dak, nati du nworu irissu nari ba.
But now that faith has come we no longer need a guide.
26 Bara anung vat nono Kutellari unuzu in yinnu sa uyenu nan nya Kristi Yisa.
For you are all sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.
27 Vat ligan nalẹ na ina shintu minu nmyen nan nya Kristi, ina shon atimine nan nya Kristi.
For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 Na ku Yahudawa duku ba ana ku Helenawa ba, na kucin dukuba, a na usaun ba, na kilime sa kishono ba, vat mine arumer nan nya Kristi Yisa.
All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
29 Andi anung anit in Kristiari, iso kuwunun Ibrahimari une, anan lin gadu unuzun sunnun nü
And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.
