Filibiya 2

1 In ma yinnu nwo unizu likara nanya Kristi duku. Inma yinnu nwo usoo mang unuzun suume. Inma yinnu nwo ligo nin Ruhu duku. Inma yinnu nwo nkunekune mi cancom nin suun bunu duku.

If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

2 Tan ayiabo nin kulo nin kpiluzu urum ulele, iyitta nin suu urume, inin yita nin munu ati nanya Ruhu, anin suu nsu nimon irume.

I entreat you to make my happiness complete – live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

3 Yenje iwasu imonimon bara usuu nati sa ukpilizu unanzang. Na nonkon atime iyenje among nafo ikatin minu.

Nothing should be done out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility lift others up above yourselves,

4 Yenje iwa kpiliza ubelle nimon ile na idi ninsuwe cas, ama kpilizang imon su namong wang.

considering not only your own interests but also the interests of others.

5 Kpilizang libau longo na lidi lin Kristi Yesu wang.

Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also.

6 Awa yitta nin kulap Kutelle, ama na awa yaun lissosin me nin Kutelle nafo imon ilenge na ame ma minu ba.

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look on equality with God as above all things to be clung to,

7 Awa na wese litime nya liti. Ayauna kulap kucin. Anuzu nin kidowon nit usurne. Iwa seghe nin yenju nafo unit.

but impoverished himself by taking the nature of a servant and becoming like one of us;

8 Awa toltin litime aso una dortun liru udun kul, ukul un kitene kuca.

he appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death – to death on a cross!

9 Bara nani Kutelle uni wa ghantighe. Awa ninghe lissa ubun kolome lissa.

And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the name which stands above all other names,

10 Awa tinane bara nanya lissa Yesu vat nalung ma tumnu, alung nalenge na idi kitene kani nin kutiin a nanya kutiin.

so that in adoration of the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth,

11 Awa sunani tutung bara kolome lilem ma punu abellin Yesu Kristi Cikilareri, udun gongon Kutelle Ucif.

and that every tongue should acknowledge JESUS CHRIST as LORD – to the glory of God the Father.

12 Bara nani, anan suuning, nafo na idin dortu kolome liri, na se meng duku ba, ama nene gbardang ka nin salininghe, sun katwa ntuccu mine nin fiu nin ketuzu kiti.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

13 Bara Kutelleri di katwa nanya mine vat nin yinnu a usu katwa bara nmang me.

Remember it is God who, in his kindness, is at work within you, enabling you both to will and to work.

14 Sun ko iyapin imon sa ugbondulu sa mayardang.

In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,

15 Sun katwa nin nile imone inan so sa alapi nin nono kidegen Kutelle sa indinon. Sun katwa nin nile imone bara inan balta nafo nkanang nanya yii, kitik kuji ku kwarkwok nin dirun fiu Kutelle.

so as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent – faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation, in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,

16 Minon gangan tigbulan nlai bara inan se imon ile na imati gongon lirin Kristi. Kubere nmanin yinnu na nnasu uccum sa katwa kahem ba.

offering to them the message of life; and then I will be able at the day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.

17 Ama ko igutuni nafo unakpu ulau nanyan ni liti nin katwa in yinnu sa uyenu mine, idin su ayiabo, nkuru nsu ayiabo nanghinu vat.

And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my lifeblood must be poured out in addition, still I will rejoice and share the joy of you all;

18 Nanya nimon irume, anung wang dinayi abo, a iyitta nayi abo nin mi wang.

and you must also rejoice and share my joy.

19 Ama ndin cisu kibinayi kitin Cikilari Yesu a tuu Timitawus ku nayiri alele, meng wang nase likara asa nlaza nbelle mine.

I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you.

20 Bara na ndi nin mong tutung nafo ame ba, urika na adi nin nayi acine bara anunghe.

For I have no one but him to send – no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare.

21 Bara vat mine din pizuru imon nati minere, na imon Yesu Kristi ba.

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

22 Ama fe yiru imon ile na adi, nafo na gono asa asuu ucife katwa, nanenere ame di katwa nin mi nanya nlirun laiye.

But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the good news.

23 Ndin kpilizu ntuughe na nin molu kubi ba asa in yene ucin nimone kiti ninghe.

It is Timothy, then, whom I hope to send, just as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me here.

24 Ama ndi ni kibinayi kirum nin Cikilari nworu meng liti ninghe wang ma dak na nin dadaunu ba.

And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself will follow.

25 Ama inyene ukifo gbas ntuu Epaparoditus ku ukpillu kiti mine. Ame gwana nighari nin don katwa ning udu likum ning, a gono kadura nin kucin nsuu ning.

Still I think it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you now, for he is my dear friend, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and he was also your messenger to help me in my need.

26 Bara awa lanza kuyamine kang, amini wa yita ni suu awadi amal zuru nan ghinu vat, anung na lanza na adi ucine ba.

For he has been longing to see you all, and has been distressed because you heard of his illness.

27 Nanere, awa su kidowo kang nafo aba ku. Ama Kutelle na lanza nkunekune me, a na ame usamme ba, umunju mengku wang bara nwa se liburi lisirne kitene liburi lisirne.

And I can assure you that his illness very nearly proved fatal. But God had pity on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

28 Nene nkipina usuu nworu ntuughe, bara andi iyeneghe tutung imanin yitu nin nayiabo ima kalu njirjir nibinayi mine.

I am all the more ready, therefore, to send him, so that the sight of him may revive your spirits and my own sorrow be lightened.

29 Seren Epaporoditus ku nin naburi abo nanyan Cikilari. Taan anit nafo ame ngongong.

Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such people in great honor.

30 Bara kitene katwan Kristiari awa lantin uku. Awa nari ulai me anan suyi katwa nin kulunu katwa kanga nafe wa yinnin usue ba nanyaa katwa ninghe.

For it was owing to his devotion to the Master’s work that he was at the point of death, having risked his own life in the effort to supply what was wanting in the help that you sent me.