Baebrania 12
1 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.
Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 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.
Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Mana mumfikirie ywembe ywastamili maneno ga chuki boka kwa babile ni sambi, dhidi yake mwene ili panga muise kwaa muchokite au kuzimya mioyo yinu.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Mwataabika kewaa au teseka pamushindana na sambi kiasi cha ishiwa na mwai.
Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 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.”
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh to you as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him:
6 Kwa mana Ngwana humwazibu yeyote ywaampendile, na kumwadhibu kila mwana ywabile ampokya kwaa.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 Mustahimili majaribu kati kurudiwa. Nnongo hushughulika ni mwenga kati ywashughulika na bana, mana ni mwana gani ambae tate bake aweza kwaa kumwazibu?
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 Lakini mana ntopo adhibiwa, ambako twenga twabote twashiriki, bai ni mwenga ni haramu na bana bake kwaa.
But if ye are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
9 Zaidi ya yote, tubile na tate bitu mu'dunia ba kutuazibu, na twatibaheshimiya. Je tupalikwa kwaa hata zaidi kumweshimu Tate ba kiroho na tama?
Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 Hakika tate bitu batituazibu kwa miaka michunu kati yatibenekana sawa kwabe, lakini Nnongo utuazibu kwa faida yitu ili tushiriki utakatifu wake.
For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure; but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Ntopo azabu yaipuraisha kwa muda woo. Upangika na matamwe. Hata nyo, baadaye upambika tunda lya amani ya utauwa kwa balo bapundishilwe nabo.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised by it.
12 Kwa eyo muinue maboko ginu yailegea na kupanga magoti yinu gabile dhaifu kuwa gabile ni ngupu kae;
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 Munyoshe mapito ga nyayo yinu, ili panga yeyote ywabile mlemavu ayongoli kwaa upotevuni lakini apate kuponywa.
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Muipale amani na bandu bote, na utakatifu kae ambao bila huo ntopo ywamwona Ngwana.
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 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.
Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble [you], and by it many be defiled;
16 Mulolekeye kuwa ntopo umalaya au mundu ywabile kwaa mtauwa kati yaa Esau, ambaye kwa sababu ya mlo umo atipemeya haki yake ya belekwa.
Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.
17 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.
For ye know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 Kwa mana muisa kwaa katika kitombe ambazo waweza kwaa kamwa. Nnema watiyaka mwoto, libendo, kukatisha tamaa na dhoruba.
For ye are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and to darkness, and tempest,
19 Mwaisa kwaa kwa lilobe lya tarumbeta, au kwa maneno gabokana na lilobe ambalo lyatisababisha kila baliyowine balobe kwaa neno lolote longela kwabe.
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 Kwa mana baweza kwaa vumiliya chelo chaamuliwa: “Mana itei hata mnyama ywakamwile kitombe, lazima akombolwe ni maliwe.”
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 Ya yogopeya muno yaagabweni Musa abayite, “Namuogopeya muno kiasi cha lendema.”
And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble: )
22 Baada yake, muisile pakitombe sa Sayuni na katika mji wa Nnongo ywabile nkoto, Yerusalemu ya kumaunde, na kwa malaika elfu komi batisherehekea.
But ye are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 Muisile katika kusanyiko lya abeleki ba kwanza bote, na kwa roho ya batakatifu ambao batikamilishwa,
To the general assembly and church of the first-born, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 Muisile kwa Yesu mpatanishi ba agano lyaayambe, na kwa mwai yainyunyuzilwe ambayo ulongela mema zaidi kuliko mwai ya Habili.
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
25 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.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:
26 Kwa muda woo lilobe lyake lyatitikisa dunia. Lakini nambeambe atiahidi na longela, “Bado mara yenge kae nalowa tikisa kwaa dunia kichake, ila maunde kae.”
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 Maneno aga, “Mara jimo kae,” ibonekeya kutoweshwa kwa ilebe ya ilendemeshwayo, ayee nga, ilebe ambayo iumbwile, ili panga yelo ilebe yalendema kwaa vibakie.
And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Kwa eyo, tupokii upwalume ambao ulendema kwaa, twapuraika katika hali ya kumwabudu Nnongo kwa yeketya pamope na nyenyekeya katika chelo.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.
29 Kwa mana Nnongo witu ni mwoto waulyaa.
For our God [is] a consuming fire.
