Matthew 23
1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
Buna Yesu wukamba nkangu wu batu ayi minlonguki miandi:
2 saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
—Minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi kisalu kiawu sudikisa batu Mina mi Moyize.
3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
Lutumukina ayi lukeba mambu moso bakulukamba. Vayi lubika landakana mavanga mawu bila mambu momo beti longa mawu ko beti sadila.
4 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
Bazebi kanga mimfuna midi zitu ayi beti tula miawu va mavangiti ma batu vayi bawu veka bamengi nikunina miawu mu tsongi nlembo.
5 But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Mambu moso bamvanga batidi ti batu baba mona. Diawu zikesi zi fioti-fioti ziozi beti vuata mu thangu lusambulu zilutidi ziozi zibankaka mu kula ayi zitsongi zi mazuela mawu zidi zi mula.
6 and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
Beti zola kaka vuandila mu bibuangu bi lukinzu mu minyengo ayi mu bikundu bitheti mu nzo zi zikhutukunu.
7 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.
Beti zola baba vaninanga mboti vama vadi batu bawombo ayi babatedilanga “Nlongi”.
8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi’, for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
Vayi beno babika kulutedilanga “Nlongi” bila beno babo lubeki Nlongi wumosi kaka ayi beno boso luidi bakhomba.
9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Kadi mutu wumosi vava ntoto lulendi tedila ko: “Tata” bila Tata dimosi kaka didi yeno, diodi didi ku Diyilu.
10 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
Lubika talanga batu balutedila: “Pfumu” bila Pfumu yimosi kaka yidi yeno: Klisto.
11 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
Mutu wowo lutidi munneni va khatitsikꞌeno wela ba kisadi kieno.
12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Woso mutu wukukinangika wela kululu ayi woso mutu wukukikulula wela nanguku.
13 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
—A mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila lueti kandika batu ba kota mu Kipfumu ki Diyilu ayi beno veka lukotanga ko! Ayi luvananga ko diluaku kuidi batu batidi kota bakota kuawu!
14 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
[O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila lueti zionanga bima bi mafuola ayi lueti sambilanga zitsambulu zimula muingi lumonika. Diawu luela bakila thumbudulu yilutidi tola.]
15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves. (Geenna g1067)
A mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya. Lueti diengilanga mu mbu ayi mu ntoto mu diambu di tombanga kani lulenda baka, ka diambu ko nzenza wumosi wulenda kota mu dibundu dieno. Ayi enati lumbeki, lunkukitulanga muana wu bulungi mu zikhumbu zizole viokila beno veka. (Geenna g1067)
16 “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
A mabienga kuidi beno mintuadisi mifua meso. Beno lueti tuba ti enati mutu levidi ndefi mu “Nzo Nzambi”, diodi disi kuandi diambu ko. Vayi enati mutu levidi ndefi mu “nolo yidi mu Nzo Nzambi” buna kafueti dukisa ndefi andi.
17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Luidi bivungisi ayi Baphofo! A mbi bilutidi mfunu? Nolo voti nzo Nzambi yoyi yinkitulanga nolo yinlongo?
18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’
Lueti tuba diaka: enati mutu levidi ndefi va “diziku dimyokolongo bibulu bitambuku kuidi Nzambi”, diodi disi kuandi diambu ko; vayi enati levidi ndefi mu “dikaba diodi didi va diziku” buna kafueti dukisa ndefi andi.
19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Baphofo! Diambu mbi dilutidi mfunu, makaba voti diziku dinkitulanga dikaba dinlongo?
20 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.
Mutu wowo levidi ndefi mu “diziku”, buna levidi yawu mu diziku ayi mu bima bioso bidi vana.
21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.
Mutu wowo levidi ndefi “mu nzo Nzambi”, buna levidi yawu mu dizina di nzo Nzambi ayi mu mutu wowo wunkalanga muna.
22 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.
Ayi mutu wowo levidi ndefi mu Diyilu, buna levidi yawu mu kundu ki Nzambi ayi mu mutu wowo wuvuandanga va kundu beni.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu ba mayuya. Bila! Lueti vana Nzambi kuku kikumi mu bima biobi lueti kuna mu zitsola zieno banza mu bima biobi bifioti-fioti biobi lueti kuna. Vayi lusadilanga ko mambu malutidi pfumu mu Mina banga: vanganga masonga, monanga batu kiadi ayi vanganga makuikama. Nganu mawu momo mambu luvanga mu kambu lenza mamo mankaka.
24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
Mintuadisi mifua meso! Lueti sosanga biobi lueti nua muingi zinzinzi zifioti-fioti zibika vioka vayi lumminanga bulu kinneni kioki beti tedila kamela.
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi beno Bafalisi! Luidi batu ba mayuya! Lunsukulanga va mbata kopo ayi va mbata dilonga vayi mu khati mu wala bima biobi lueti yiba ayi zitsatu zieno zimbimbi.
26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Bafalisi bafua meso! Lutuama theti sukula mu khati kopo ayi mu khati dilonga, bosi buna mu mbata mamusukuka.
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu ba mayuya! Bila luidi banga biziami biobi bivindu nlangi yi phembi ayi ku nganda bimmonikanga kitoko vayi mu khati mu wala mimvesi mi batu bafua, mvindu ayi kheni yi phila mu phila.
28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Beno mamveno, ku nganda lummonikanga basonga va meso ma batu vayi mu khati muwala mayuya ayi mambu mambimbi ma phila mu phila.
29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
O mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina ayi Bafalisi! Beno luidi batu mayuya! Luntunganga biziami bi mimbikudi ayi lumfuanisanga bumboti biziami bi batu basonga,
30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
ayi lueti tubanga: “Enati beto tuzinga mu thangu bakulu beto nganu tusia bundana yawu ko mu vonda mimbikudi.”
31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Bu luntuba bobo lulembo telama beno veka kimbangi ti luidi bana ba batu bobo bavonda mimbikudi.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Diawu manisanu kisalu kioki kitona bakulu beno.
33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? (Geenna g1067)
A beno zinioka! Bana ba bikusa! A buevi lulenda tinina nkanu wu bulungi e? (Geenna g1067)
34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
Ndiela lufidisila mimbikudi, batu badi nduenga ayi minlongi mi Mina. Luela vonda bankaka, luela bandisa bankaka va dikulusi vayi bankaka luela babeta bikoti mu zinzo zieno zi zikhutukunu, bosi luela kuba yamisa mu divula dimosi-dimosi
35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
muingi menga, ma batu boso basonga, momo matenguka tona mu Abeli mutu wusonga nate mu Zakali muana Balaki; mutu wowo luvonda va khatitsika Nzo Nzambi ayi diziku diodi banyokilanga Nzambi makaba, matangulu mu mintu mieno.
36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Bukiedika ndikulukamba mambu moso mama mela buila batu ba tsungi yayi.
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
—A Yelusalemi! A Yelusalemi e! Ngeyo wumvondanga mimbikudi ayi wunlozilanga matadi batu bobo Nzambi kakufidisilanga. Zikhumbu zikua ndizola kutikisa bana baku banga tsusu bu kankutikisilanga bana bandi ku tsi mavavi mandi. Vayi wumanga kuaku.
38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
Tala, nzoꞌaku yikuiza ba dio wuya, yikambu bima.
39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
Diawu, ndikulukambila: tona buabu lulendi buela kumbona ko nate thangu luela tuba: Bika kasakumunu mutu wowo wunkuizila mu dizina di Pfumu.
