1 John 2
1 My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father – Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Bana bama, ndilusonikini mambu mama muingi lubika sumuka; ayi enati mutu wuvola masumu buna tubeki phovi yikutuvovilanga kuidi Tata: Yesu Klisto, mutu wusonga.
2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but the sins of the whole world.
Niandi wukiyekula banga dikaba mu diambu di masumu meto ayi bika sia ti mu diambu di masumu meto kaka vayi ayi mu diambu di momo ma nza yimvimba.
3 It is by keeping God’s commands that we can be sure we know him.
Mu diambu diadi tuzabidi ti beto tunzebi: enati beto tunkebanga zithumunu ziandi.
4 Whoever says ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them.
Woso mutu wuntuba: “minu ndinzebi” mu kambu keba zithumunu ziandi; buna widi nkua luvunu ayi kiedika kisi ko mu niandi.
5 But the person who keeps God’s word, in them the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. This is how we can be sure we are in him:
Vayi woso mutu wunkebanga mambu mandi buna bukiedika luzolo lu Nzambi luidi lufuana mu mutu wowo; Mu diambu diodi tuzabidi ti tuidi mu niandi.
6 whoever claims to live in him should live just as Jesus did.
Woso mutu wuntuba ti widi mu niandi buna mamvandi kafueti diatilaboso niandi veka kadiatila.
7 Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message you have already heard.
Bakiluzolo, bika sia ti lutumunu lumona ndilusonikina vayi lutumunu beni lu thama kuandi, lolo lutambula tona vana thonono. Lutumunulu thama beni luawu lualu mambu ma Nzambi momo luwa.
8 Yet, in a way, it is a new command that I am writing to you – which is shown true in Christ’s life and in yours – for the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
Buela diaka, lutumunu lumona ndilusonikini: luidi lukiedika mu niandiayi mu beno bila tombi kilembo lalakana ayi kiezila ki kiedika kilembo kienzuka.
9 The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is still in the darkness.
Woso mutu wuntuba ti widi mu kiezila vayi wunlenda khombꞌandibuna nate buabu wukidi kuandi mu tombi.
10 The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble.
Woso mutu weti zola khombꞌandi buna widi mu kiezila ayi diluaku di buila dilendi monika mu niandi ko.
11 The person who hates is in the dark. They stumble along in the darkness; they do not know where they are going because the darkness blinds them.
Vayi woso mutu wunlenda khombꞌandi buna widi mu tombi ayi wundiatilangamu tombi, kasi zaba ko kuevi kalembo yendi bila tombi kivondidi meso mandi.
12 Little children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for Christ’s sake.
Ndikulusonikina, beno bana, mu diambu di masumu meno malemvokolo mu dizina di Yesu.
13 Parents, I am writing to you because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I am writing to you because you have conquered the evil one. Children, I write to you because you have come to know the Father.
Ndikulusonikina beno madise, mu diambu di luzebi mutu wowo widitona vana thonono. Ndikulusonikina, beno baleki mu diambu di lunungini pheveyimbimbi. Ndikulusonikina, beno bana, mu diambu di beno luzebi Tata.
14 Parents, I write to you because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. Young people, I write to you because you are strong, and God’s message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.
Ndikulusonikina, beno madise, mu diambu di beno luzebi mutu widi tonavana thonono. Ndikulusonikina, beno baleki mu diambu di beno ngolo luidi ayi mu diambu di mambu ma Nzambi madi mu beno ayi mu diambu di beno lunungini pheve yimbimbi.
15 Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them.
Lubika zola nza ayi bima bidi va nza. Enati mutu weti zola nza buna luzolo lu Tata luisi ko mu niandi
16 For all that the world can offer – the desires for physical pleasure, the enticements to the eye, the arrogance of wealth – belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.
bila bibio bidi va nza: zinzinunu zi nsuni, zinzinunu zi mesoayi luniemo lu luzingu bisi bi Tata ko vayi bi nza.
17 And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remain for ever. (aiōn g165)
Muaki nza yilembo vioki ayi zinzinunu ziandi; vayi woso mutu wumvanganga luzolo lu Nzambi widi moyo mu zithangu zioso. (aiōn g165)
18 My children, it is the last hour. You were told that an antichrist was coming; and many antichrists have already arisen. This is why we know that this is the last hour.
Bana bama, yawu yayi thangu yi tsuka. Banga kuandi bu luwati antiklisto wulembo yizi, ayi, buabu bantiklisto beka bawombo. Mu diambu diodi tuzabidi ti yawu yayi thangu yi tsuka.
19 These people come from our ranks, but they were never truly part of us – if they had been then they would have stayed with us. They left so it would be clear that none of them really belonged to us.
Bawu batotukila mu beto vayi basia ba batu beto ko; Bila enati baba batu beto, nganu badi yeto. Vayi bayenda mu diambu bamonika ti kadi wumosi mu bawu kasia ba weto ko.
20 You, however, have been annointed by the Holy One. You all know the truth.
Beno lutambula pheve Yinlongo kuidi mutu wunlongo ayi beno boso luzebi kiedika.
21 I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie can come from the truth.
Ndikadi kulusonikina, bika sia ti mu diambu lusia zaba kiedika ko, vayi mu diambu luzebi kiawu ayi kiedika kilendi totula ko kadi luvunu.
22 Who is a liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist – one who rejects the Father and the Son.
Nani nkua luvunu e? A keti woso mutu wuntunukanga ti Yesu kasi Klisto ko. Niandi antiklisto bila niandi weti tunuka Tata ayi muana.
23 No one who rejects the Son has the Father; to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father also.
Woso mutu wuntunukanga muana kasi zaba Tata ko; woso mutu wunkikininanga Muana buna zebi Tata.
24 As for you, you must let what you have heard from the beginning continue to live in you. If what you heard from the beginning dwells in you, you will remain both in the Son and the Father.
Mu diambu dieno, bika momo luwa tona vana thonono maba mu beno. Enati momo luwa tona vana thonono madi mu beno buna beno mamveno luidimu Muana ayi mu Tata.
Tala yawu yayi tsila yikatuvana: luzingu lu kalumani. (aiōnios g166)
26 In writing this to you, I have in mind those who are trying to mislead you.
Ndilusonikini mambu mama mu diambu di batu bobo bantomba kuluzimbisa.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains with you. You do not need anyone to teach you. His anointing teaches you about everything. What it teaches you is true, it is not a lie. Do what it has taught you: abide in him.
Vayi mu diambu dieno, Pheve yinlongo yoyi ludukudulu banga mafuta, mu beno. Luisi kadi mfunu ko ti mutu kalulonga. Vayi bu didi ti Pheve beni Yinlongo yawu yeti ku lulonga mu diambu di mambu moso ayi yawu yidi yi kiedika, yisi yi luvunu ko; buna bika luba mu kithuadi ayi Klisto boso bu yi lulongila mawu.
28 Yes, my children, remain in him, so that when he appears our confidence doesn’t fail us, and we are not ashamed to meet him at his coming.
Ayi buabu beno bana, bika luba mu niandi mu diambu mu thangu kela monika, tuba bakinda ayi tubika fua tsoni va ntualꞌandi bu kela kuiza.
29 Since you know he is righteous, you realise that everyone who does what is right is his child.
Enati luzebi ti Klisto widi wusonga buna bika luzaba ti woso mutu wunsadilanga busonga buna niandi wubutu kuidi Klisto.
