Hebrews 12
1 We [know about] many people like that [who showed they trusted in God]. They are like a crowd of spectators [who are cheering for us inside a stadium] [MET]. Knowing that, we must put away all the things that hinder us, [as a runner puts aside everything that would hinder him because they are heavy] [MET]. Especially we must put away sinful actions that [hinder us, as a runner] sets aside clothes he does not need, clothes that would entangle him [MET]. Let us [wholeheartedly strive to achieve what God has planned for us, as someone] in a race wholeheartedly runs the course that is before him [MET].
Kwa eyo, kwa mana tumezungukwa na liunde likolo lya mashahidi, tutupe kila kilebe chatulemea pamope ni sambi yaibile yatuzingira kiurahisi. Tupange mbio kwa saburi katika mashindano yabekilwe nnongi yitu.
2 And let us [keep our minds on] Jesus, [as a runner] keeps his eyes on [the goal] [MET]. Jesus is the one we should imitate in the way he perfectly trusted [God. When he died on] the cross he endured it as he suffered greatly [MTY], instead of [thinking about the things he would] rejoice about [later]. He disregarded being disgraced by [dying that way]. He is now sitting at the place of highest honor [MTY] at the throne [where God rules].
Tugaelekeze minyo yitu kwa Yesu, ywabile mwanzilishi na ywaitimiza imani yitu, ambaye kwa ajili ya puraha ibekilwe nnongi ya ywastamili msalaba, mana atiidharau kiya yake, na tama pae luboko lwa kummalyo lwa iteo sa enzi sa Nnongo.
3 [Jesus] patiently endured it when sinful people acted so hostilely against him. Try to act the way he did, so that you do not give up [trusting] God or become discouraged.
Mana mumfikirie ywembe ywastamili maneno ga chuki boka kwa babile ni sambi, dhidi yake mwene ili panga muise kwaa muchokite au kuzimya mioyo yinu.
4 While you have struggled against [being tempted to] sin, you have not yet bled [and died because of resisting evil, as Jesus did].
Mwataabika kewaa au teseka pamushindana na sambi kiasi cha ishiwa na mwai.
5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words [that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God] would exhort you as his children: My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you, and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],
Mwasahau kae kolo kutiwa mwoyo ambako kunabaelekeza kati bana analome: “Mwana wango. kana ugatole kwa wepesi maruda ga Ngwana, wala kana ukate tamaa paurekebishilwe ni ywembe.”
6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines, and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.
Kwa mana Ngwana humwazibu yeyote ywaampendile, na kumwadhibu kila mwana ywabile ampokya kwaa.
7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things [that happen to you]. [When God disciplines you] he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT].
Mustahimili majaribu kati kurudiwa. Nnongo hushughulika ni mwenga kati ywashughulika na bana, mana ni mwana gani ambae tate bake aweza kwaa kumwazibu?
8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are [not true children of God] [MET]. [You are like] illegitimate children; [no father disciplines them].
Lakini mana ntopo adhibiwa, ambako twenga twabote twashiriki, bai ni mwenga ni haramu na bana bake kwaa.
9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us [when we were young], and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!
Zaidi ya yote, tubile na tate bitu mu'dunia ba kutuazibu, na twatibaheshimiya. Je tupalikwa kwaa hata zaidi kumweshimu Tate ba kiroho na tama?
10 Our natural fathers disciplined us for a short time in a way that they considered right, [but it wasn’t always right], but God always disciplines us [in a right way], to help us. He does it so that we may be holy as he is.
Hakika tate bitu batituazibu kwa miaka michunu kati yatibenekana sawa kwabe, lakini Nnongo utuazibu kwa faida yitu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
11 During the time that God is disciplining us, that does not seem to be something about which we should rejoice. Instead, it is something that pains us. But later it causes those who have learned from it to be peaceful and to [live] righteously.
Ntopo azabu yaipuraisha kwa muda woo. Upangika na matamwe. Hata nyo, baadaye upambika tunda lya amani ya utauwa kwa balo bapundishilwe nabo.
12 So, [instead of acting as though you were spiritually exhausted], renew yourselves [MET] spiritually.
Kwa eyo muinue maboko ginu yailegea na kupanga magoti yinu gabile dhaifu kuwa gabile ni ngupu kae;
13 Go straight forward [in your Christian life] [MET], in order that believers who are uncertain about their faith [will imitate you] and not ([leave God’s way/] useless [to God]) [MET]. Instead, they will be spiritually restored [MET] as an injured and useless limb is restored.
Munyoshe mapito ga nyayo yinu, ili panga yeyote ywabile mlemavu ayongoli kwaa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
14 Try to live peacefully with all people. Seek to be holy, since no one will see the Lord if he is not holy.
Muipale amani na bandu bote, na utakatifu kae ambao bila huo ntopo ywamwona Ngwana.
15 Beware that none of you stops [trusting in] God, [who has done kind things for us that we did not deserve] (OR, Beware that you have never [experienced] God kindly [saving you]). Be on guard lest any of you [act in an evil way towards others], because your doing that will [grow like] [MET] a root [grows into a big plant], and the result [of your] doing that will be that many believers will sin and become unacceptable to God.
Mube baangalifu ili panga abile kwaa ywatengwa kutalu na neema ga Nnongo, na panga iise kwaa shina lya uchungu lyalowa chipuka na kusababisha shida na kukerebuya benge.
16 Do not let anyone be immoral, or be irreligious as Esau was. He exchanged the rights he had as a firstborn son for only one meal.
Mulolekeye kuwa ntopo umalaya au mundu ywabile kwaa mtauwa kati yaa Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo umo atipemeya haki yake ya belekwa.
17 You know that after he did that, he wanted to receive [what his father would promise to give him if] he blessed him. But [his father] was unable [to change what he had already done]. And Esau found no way to change things, even though he sought tearfully to do that.
Kwa mana mutangite panga baadaye, atitamaniya kurithi baraka, atikanikiwa, kwa sababu apatike kwaa fursa ya tubu pamope ni tate bake, hata ingawa agapalike muno kwa machozi.
18 In coming [to God] you have not [experienced things like what the Israeli people experienced] at [Sinai] Mountain. [They] approached [a mountain that God told them they] should not touch. [They approached] a blazing fire, and it was gloomy and dark [DOU], and there was a hurricane/cyclone.
Kwa mana muisa kwaa katika kitombe ambazo waweza kwaa kamwa. Nnema watiyaka mwoto, libendo, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
19 They heard a trumpet sounding and they heard [God] speak. The result was that those who heard it pleaded for God not to speak to them like that again.
Mwaisa kwaa kwa lilobe lya tarumbeta, au kwa maneno gabokana na lilobe ambalo lyatisababisha kila baliyowine balobe kwaa neno lolote longela kwabe.
20 When [God] commanded them saying, “If [a person or] even an animal touches this mountain, [you] must [kill him/it by] throwing stones at him/it,” they were terrified.
Kwa mana baweza kwaa vumiliya chelo chaamuliwa: “Mana itei hata mnyama ywakamwile kitombe, lazima akombolwe ni maliwe.”
21 Truly, because Moses was terrified after seeing what happened [on the mountain], he said, “I am trembling because I am very afraid!”
Ya yogopeya muno yaagabweni Musa abayite, “Namuogopeya muno kiasi cha lendema.”
22 Instead, [it is as though] you have come to [the presence of God in heaven] [MET]. [That is like what your ancestors did when they came to worship] God on Zion Hill, in Jerusalem, in the city of God who is all-powerful. You have come (OR, you are coming) to where there are countless angels, who are rejoicing as they have gathered together.
Baada yake, muisile pakitombe sa Sayuni na katika mji wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto, Yerusalemu ya kumaunde, na kwa malaika elfu komi batisherehekea.
23 You have joined all the believers [who have privileges like] firstborn sons, whose names [God] has written down in heaven. You have come to God, who will judge everyone. You have come to where the spirits of God’s people are, people who lived righteously [before they died], and who now have been made perfect [in heaven].
Muisile katika kusanyiko lya abeleki ba kwanza bote, na kwa roho ya batakatifu ambao batikamilishwa,
24 You have come to Jesus, who arranged a new covenant [between us and God]. You have accepted [what he accomplished when] his blood flowed [when he died on the cross. His doing that made it possible for God to forgive us]. That is better than the blood of Abel, [who just] wanted revenge because his brother Cain murdered him.
Muisile kwa Yesu mpatanishi ba agano lyaayambe, na kwa mwai yainyunyuzilwe ambayo ulongela mema zaidi kuliko mwai ya Habili.
25 Beware that you do not refuse to listen to [God] who is speaking to you. The Israeli people did not escape [God punishing them] when [Moses] (OR, [God]) warned them here on earth. So we shall surely not escape [God punishing us] if we reject him when he warns us from heaven! [RHQ]
Linga kuwa kana uise ukamkataa yumo ywaalongela. Kwa kuwa mana batiepuka babile kunkataa yumo ywabile baonya dunia, kwa hakika twaepuka kwaa mana itei twakerebuka kutalu boka kwa yolo ywatukanya boka kumaunde.
26 The earth shook [PRS] then when he spoke [MTY] [at Sinai Mountain]. But now he has promised, “I will shake the earth again, one more time, but I will shake heaven too.”
Kwa muda woo lilobe lyake lyatitikisa dunia. Lakini nambeambe atiahidi na longela, “Bado mara yenge kae nalowa tikisa kwaa dunia kichake, ila maunde kae.”
27 The words “again, one more time” indicate that things [on earth] will be shaken {that [he] will shake things [on earth]}, meaning that he will set aside all that [he] has created, in order that the things [in heaven] that cannot be shaken {that nothing can shake} may remain forever.
Maneno aga, “Mara jimo kae,” ibonekeya kutoweshwa kwa ilebe ya ilendemeshwayo, ayee nga, ilebe ambayo iumbwile, ili panga yelo ilebe yalendema kwaa vibakie.
28 So, let us thank God that we are becoming members of a kingdom that nothing can shake. Let us worship/serve God in a way that pleases him by being greatly in awe [DOU] before him.
Kwa eyo, tupokii upwalume ambao ulendema kwaa, twapuraika katika hali ya kumwabudu Nnongo kwa yeketya pamope na nyenyekeya katika chelo.
29 Remember that the God we [worship/serve] is like a fire that burns up everything [that is impure] [MET]!
Kwa mana Nnongo witu ni mwoto waulyaa.
